System and method for identifying transdiagnostic features shared across mental health disorders

ABSTRACT

A system for evaluating mental health of patients includes a memory and a control system. The memory contains executable code storing instructions for performing a method. The control system is coupled to the memory and includes one or more processors. The control system is configured to execute the machine executable code to cause the control system to perform the method: A selection of answers associated with a patient is received. The selection of answers corresponds to each question in a series of questions from mental health questionnaires. Unprocessed MM data are received. The unprocessed MRI data correspond to a set of MM images of a biological structure associated with the patient. The unprocessed MRI data is processed to output a set of MRI features. Using a machine learning model, the selection of answers and the set of MRI features are processed to output a mental health indication of the patient.

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION

This application is the National Phase of International ApplicationPCT/US2019/048762, filed Aug. 29, 2019, which designated the UnitedStates, which claims priority to and the benefit of U.S. ProvisionalPatent No. 62/725,994 filed Aug. 31, 2018, each of which is herebyincorporated by reference herein in its entirety.

TECHNICAL FIELD

The present disclosure relates to transdiagnostic feature selection, andmore specifically, to the use of machine learning to identify sharedtransdiagnostic features.

BACKGROUND

The field of psychiatry has long relied on making diagnoses andrecommending treatment for disorders based solely on clinicalphenomenology. For example, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual ofMental Disorders (DSM) is a standard for diagnosing psychiatricdisorders in the United States. It provides a symptom-based taxonomywhich serves to help clinicians classify various clusters of symptomsand abnormal behaviors into distinct categories of disorders.

However, categorizing mental disorders as discrete entities each havingits own distinct cluster of symptoms has its inadequacies. This approachhampers prognostic assessment, treatment, and drug development.Therefore, one objective of the present disclosure is to use adata-driven method to find highly-predictive biomarkers for severalmeasures of depressed mood, anxiety, anhedonia and related negativesymptoms.

SUMMARY

Aspects of the present disclosure include a system for evaluating apatient for mental health issues. The system includes a display device,a user interface, a memory, and a control system. The memory containsmachine readable medium. The machine readable medium includes machineexecutable code storing instructions for performing a method. Thecontrol system is coupled to the memory, and includes one or moreprocessors. The control system is configured to execute the machineexecutable code to cause the control system to perform the method: Onthe display device, a series of questions from mental healthquestionnaires is displayed. The series of questions includes text andanswers for each question. From the user interface, a selection ofanswers of each of the series of questions is received from a patient.Unprocessed MRI data are received. The unprocessed MRI data correspondto a set of MRI images of a biological structure associated with thepatient. Using a machine learning model, the selection of answers andthe unprocessed MRI data are processed to output a mental healthindication of the patient.

In some aspects, the unprocessed MRI data corresponds to MRI data for abrain of the patient. In some aspects, the unprocessed MRI data includesat least one of: functional MRI data, resting-state functional MRI data,structural MRI data, and any combination thereof. In some aspects, thecontrol system is further configured to preprocess the unprocessed MRIdata to identify a plurality of features.

In some aspects, the mental health indication is categorical. Forexample, the mental health indication includes a determination that theprocessed selection of answers and the processed MRI data includesindications of at least one of: a neuropsychiatric disorder,schizophrenia, a bi-polar disorder, and any combination thereof.

In some aspects, outputting the mental health indication furthercomprises determining that the processed selection of answers and theprocessed MRI data identifies features corresponding to a mentaldisorder.

In some aspects, the machine learning model is at least one of: ageneralized linear model, a regression model, a logistical regressionmodel, a supervised regression method, random forest, LASSO, asupervised machine-learning model, and an elastic net.

In some aspects, the machine learning model was generated by receivinglabeled training data for a plurality of individuals. The labeledtraining data indicates whether each of the plurality of individuals hasone or more mental health disorders. The labeled training data includesMRI data recorded for each of the plurality of individuals. The labeledtraining data further includes a selection of answers to the series ofquestions for each of the plurality of individuals. A plurality offeatures is determined from the labeled training data. An initialmachine learning model is trained in a supervised manner. The initialmachine learning model is trained based on the plurality of features.Importance measures for each of the plurality of features extractedbased on the training of the initial machine learning model. A pluralityof subset machine learning models is generated based on the extractedimportance measures for the plurality of features. A classificationperformance of the generated plurality of subset machine learning modelsis evaluated At least one of the subset machine learning models isselected as the machine learning model.

In some aspects, the machine learning model is trained on clinicalscales data corresponding to the plurality of individuals. In someaspects, the machine learning model is trained on fMRI full connectivitydata corresponding to the plurality of individuals. In some aspects, themachine learning model is trained on sMRI data corresponding to theplurality of individuals. The sMRI data includes cortical volume data,cortical thickness data, and cortical surface area data.

In some aspects, the machine learning model is trained on input datacorresponding to the plurality of individuals. For each individual, theinput data can include various types of data. As an example, the inputdata includes clinical scales data and fMRI data. As another example,the input data includes clinical scales data and sMRI data. As a furtherexample, the input data includes fMRI data and sMRI data. As yet anotherexample, the input data includes fMRI data, clinical scales data, andsMRI data.

Additional aspects of the present disclosure include a system forevaluating mental health of patients. The system includes a memory, anda control system. The memory contains machine readable medium. Themachine readable medium includes machine executable code storinginstructions for performing a method. The control system is coupled tothe memory, and includes one or more processors. The control system isconfigured to execute the machine executable code to cause the controlsystem to perform the method: A selection of answers associated with apatient is received. The selection of answers corresponds to eachquestion in a series of questions from mental health questionnaires.Unprocessed MRI data are received. The unprocessed MRI data correspondto a set of MRI images of a biological structure associated with thepatient. The unprocessed MRI data is processed to output a set of MRIfeatures. Using a machine learning model, the selection of answers andthe set of MRI features are processed to output a mental healthindication of the patient.

Further aspects of the present disclosure include a machine learningtraining system. The machine learning training system includes at leastone nontransitory processor-readable storage medium and at least oneprocessor communicatively coupled to the at least one nontransitoryprocessor-readable storage medium. The at least one nontransitoryprocessor-readable storage medium stores at least one ofprocessor-executable instructions or data. The at least one processor,in operation, is configured to receive labeled training data. Thelabeled training data includes data for a plurality of individuals,which indicate whether each of the individuals has one or more of aplurality of mental health disorders. The labeled training data furtherincludes a selection of answers to mental health questionnaires for eachof the individuals, and MRI data recorded for each of the plurality ofindividuals. The answers and MRI data are processed to output aplurality of features. An initial machine learning model is trained in asupervised manner based at least in part on the received labeledtraining data. An importance measure for each of the plurality offeatures is extracted from the trained initial machine learning model. Aplurality of subset machine learning models is generated based at leastin part on the extracted importance measures for the plurality offeatures. A classification performance of the generated plurality ofsubset machine learning models are evaluated. At least one of the subsetmachine learning models is selected as a diagnostic classifier. Thefeatures of the diagnostic classifier are stored in the at least onenontransitory processor-readable storage medium for subsequent use as ascreening tool.

In some aspects, the machine learning system further includes using thefeatures of the diagnostic classifier as a screening tool to assess atleast one of intermediate or end-point outcomes in at least one clinicaltrial testing for treatment responses.

In some aspects, the selected subset machine learning model includes aportion of the plurality of features. The portion selected from featuresincludes an importance measure above a threshold value.

In some aspects, each of the subset machine learning models includes adifferent selection of the portion of the plurality of features. In someaspects, at least twenty features of the plurality of features have animportance measure above the threshold value. For example, the portionof the plurality of features includes at least ten features and lessthan twenty features.

In some aspects, the diagnostic classifier is operative to determinewhether an individual is healthy or has a general mental health issue.In some aspects, the diagnostic classifier is operative to determinewhether an individual is healthy or has a specific mental healthdisorder. In some aspects, the diagnostic classifier is operative todetermine whether an individual has a first specific mental healthdisorder or a second specific mental health disorder. In some aspects,the diagnostic classifier is operative to determine whether anindividual is at risk of developing a mental health disorder.

In some aspects, the labeled training data includes, for eachindividual, an indication of at least one of the following: whether theindividual is healthy, whether the individual has a general mentalhealth issue, whether the individual has one or more specific mentalhealth disorders, whether the individual is at risk of developing ageneral mental health issue, whether the individual is at risk ofdeveloping one or more specific mental health disorders, and anycombination thereof. In some aspects, the labeled training data furthercomprises at least one of: functional measurement data or physiologicalmeasurement data.

In some aspects, the selected subset machine learning model includes atleast a subset of the following features: “I have more fun doingactivities with other people than by myself”; “I have troubleconcentrating”; “I have frequent mood changes without understandingwhy”; “I try to do well at everything I do”; “I need to think for a longtime before I make a decision”; “I need a lot of self-control to keepmyself out of trouble”; “I am often restless and can't sit still”; “I amvery affected when one of my friends seems upset”; “My mood changes morethan I think I should”; and “I do not get enough emotional support fromother people.”

In some aspects, the selected subset machine learning model includes atleast a subset of the following features: “I like to please other peopleas much as I can”; “There are often times when I am so restless that itis impossible for me to sit still”; “My mood often changes, fromhappiness to sadness, without my knowing why”; “Although there arethings that I enjoy doing by myself, I usually seem to have more funwhen I do things with other people”; “I am more sentimental than mostpeople”; “I love to excel at everything I do”; “People consider me arather freewheeling and spontaneous person”; “I feel that I never reallyget all that I need from people”; “In unfamiliar surroundings, I amoften so assertive and sociable that I surprise myself”; “I like tothink about things for a long time before I make a decision”; “Sometimesideas and insights come to me so fast that I cannot express them all”;“I have many hobbies”; “I like to keep my problems to myself”; “It isdifficult for me to keep the same interests for a long time because myattention often shifts to something else”; “How often do you havetrouble wrapping up the final details of a project, once the challengingparts have been done”; “I like to go slow in starting work, even if itis easy to do”; and “Usually I am more worried than most people thatsomething might go wrong in the future.”

In some aspects, in operation, the at least one processor trains theinitial machine learning model using k-fold cross validation withlogistic regression. In some aspects, each of the subset machinelearning models includes a different combination of the features of theinitial machine learning model. In some aspects, each of the subsetmachine learning models includes a different number of the features ofthe initial machine learning model determined by the importancemeasures.

Still further aspects of the present disclosure include a system forevaluating mental health of patients. The system includes a memory and acontrol system. The memory contains machine readable medium. The machinereadable medium includes machine executable code storing instructionsfor performing a method. The control system is coupled to the memory,and includes one or more processors. The control system is configured toexecute the machine executable code to cause the control system toperform the method: Unprocessed MRI data are received. The unprocessedMRI data correspond to a set of MRI images of a biological structure ofa patient. Using a machine learning model, the unprocessed MRI data areprocessed to output a mental health indication of the patient.

The above summary is not intended to represent each embodiment or everyaspect of the present disclosure. Rather, the foregoing summary merelyprovides an example of some of the novel aspects and features set forthherein. The above features and advantages, and other features andadvantages of the present disclosure, will be readily apparent from thefollowing detailed description of representative embodiments and modesfor carrying out the present disclosure, when taken in connection withthe accompanying drawings and the appended claims.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The foregoing and other advantages of the present disclosure will becomeapparent upon reading the following detailed description and uponreference to the drawings.

FIGS. 1A-1D illustrate boxplots of the maximum AUC's during sequentialmodel selection, according to some implementations of the presentdisclosure;

FIGS. 2A-2B illustrate time complexity of the importance-guided forwardmodel selection procedure, according to some implementations of thepresent disclosure;

FIGS. 3A-3D illustrate ROC from the truncated models producing the bestAUC using phenotype data as features, according to some implementationsof the present disclosure;

FIG. 4 illustrates percentage of questions from each of thirteen (13)questionnaires among the set of most predictive questions producing thehighest AUC, according to some implementations of the presentdisclosure;

FIGS. 5A-5D illustrate comparing the count of items from eachquestionnaire among the actual set of most predictive questions withthose from randomly ordered lists of questions, according to someimplementations of the present disclosure;

FIGS. 6A-6D illustrate AUC's as a function of the number of top featuresincluded during sequential model selection, according to someimplementations of the present disclosure;

FIGS. 7A-7D illustrates actual AUC's versus the distribution of AUC'sfrom classifiers trained and tested on randomly permuted class labels,according to some implementations of the present disclosure;

FIG. 8A illustrates X-Y plots of number of features versus predictedoutcome scores, according to some implementations of the presentdisclosure;

FIG. 8B illustrates a comparison of measured outcome scores andpredicted outcome scores, according to some implementations of thepresent disclosure;

FIGS. 9A-9F illustrate measured versus predicted values for best modelsfor depression or depressed mood, according to some implementations ofthe present disclosure;

FIGS. 10A-10E illustrate measured versus predicted values for bestmodels for anhedonia, according to some implementations of the presentdisclosure;

FIG. 11A-11B illustrate measured versus predicted values for best modelsfor anxiety, according to some implementations of the presentdisclosure;

FIGS. 12A-12H illustrate measured versus predicted values for bestmodels for negative symptoms, according to some implementations of thepresent disclosure;

FIG. 13 illustrates best median r² for the best models for each outcomevariable, according to some implementations of the present disclosure;

FIGS. 14A-14B illustrate proportions of feature types in best models,according to some implementations of the present disclosure;

FIGS. 15A-15F illustrate proportions of features from each scale forbest model predicting depression or depressed mood, according to someimplementations of the present disclosure;

FIGS. 16A-16E illustrate proportions of features from each scale forbest model predicting anhedonia, according to some implementations ofthe present disclosure;

FIGS. 17A-17B illustrate proportions of features from each scale forbest model predicting anxiety, according to some implementations of thepresent disclosure;

FIGS. 18A-18G illustrate proportion of features from each scale for bestmodel predicting negative symptoms, according to some implementations ofthe present disclosure;

FIGS. 19A-19F illustrate binary heat maps for fMRI connectivity featuresof best model predicting depression or depressed mood, according to someimplementations of the present disclosure;

FIGS. 20A-20E illustrate binary heat maps for fMRI connectivity featuresof best model predicting anhedonia, according to some implementations ofthe present disclosure;

FIGS. 21A-21B illustrate binary heat maps for fMRI connectivity featuresof best model predicting anxiety, according to some implementations ofthe present disclosure;

FIGS. 22A-22H illustrate binary heat maps for fMRI connectivity featuresof best model predicting negative symptoms, according to someimplementations of the present disclosure;

FIGS. 23A-23B illustrate median r² for models with specific number offeatures, according to some implementations of the present disclosure;

FIGS. 24A-24F illustrate proportions of features from each scale for thescales-only model predicting depression or depressed mood according tosome implementations of the present disclosure;

FIGS. 25A-25E illustrate proportions of features from each scale forscales-only model predicting anhedonia, according to someimplementations of the present disclosure;

FIGS. 26A-26B illustrate proportions of features from each scale forscales-only model predicting anxiety, according to some implementationsof the present disclosure;

FIGS. 27A-27H illustrate proportions of features from each scale forscales-only model predicting negative symptoms, according to someimplementations of the present disclosure;

FIG. 28 illustrates an exemplary system for implementing variousmethodologies disclosed herein, according to some implementations of thepresent disclosure;

FIG. 29 illustrates an exemplary methodology for determining a symptomseverity indicator for a patient, according to some implementations ofthe present disclosure;

FIG. 30 illustrates an exemplary methodology for selecting a machinelearning model as a generalized linear model, according to someimplementations of the present disclosure;

FIGS. 31A-31B illustrates a block diagram of an MRI system used toacquire NMR data, according to some implementations of the presentdisclosure;

FIG. 32 illustrates a block diagram of a transceiver which forms part ofthe MRI system of FIG. 31A, according to some implementations of thepresent disclosure; and

FIG. 33 illustrates an exemplary methodology for selecting a machinelearning model as a diagnostic classifier, according to someimplementations of the present disclosure.

While the present disclosure is susceptible to various modifications andalternative forms, specific embodiments have been shown by way ofexample in the drawings and will be described in detail herein. Itshould be understood, however, that the present disclosure is notintended to be limited to the particular forms disclosed. Rather, thepresent disclosure is to cover all modifications, equivalents, andalternatives falling within the spirit and scope of the presentdisclosure as defined by the appended claims.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

The present disclosure is described with reference to the attachedfigures, where like reference numerals are used throughout the figuresto designate similar or equivalent elements. The figures are not drawnto scale, and are provided merely to illustrate the instant disclosure.Several aspects of the disclosure are described below with reference toexample applications for illustration. It should be understood thatnumerous specific details, relationships, and methods are set forth toprovide a full understanding of the disclosure. One having ordinaryskill in the relevant art, however, will readily recognize that thedisclosure can be practiced without one or more of the specific details,or with other methods. In other instances, well-known structures oroperations are not shown in detail to avoid obscuring the disclosure.The present disclosure is not limited by the illustrated ordering ofacts or events, as some acts may occur in different orders and/orconcurrently with other acts or events. Furthermore, not all illustratedacts or events are required to implement a methodology in accordancewith the present disclosure.

Aspects of the present disclosure can be implemented using one or moresuitable processing device, such as general-purpose computer systems,microprocessors, digital signal processors, micro-controllers,application-specific integrated circuits (ASIC), programmable logicdevices (PLD), field-programmable logic devices (FPLD),field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA), mobile devices such as a mobiletelephone or personal digital assistants (PDA), a local server, a remoteserver, wearable computers, tablet computers, or the like.

Memory storage devices of the one or more processing devices can includea machine-readable medium on which is stored one or more sets ofinstructions (e.g., software) embodying any one or more of themethodologies or functions described herein. The instructions canfurther be transmitted or received over a network via a networktransmitter receiver. While the machine-readable medium can be a singlemedium, the term “machine-readable medium” should be taken to include asingle medium or multiple media (e.g., a centralized or distributeddatabase, and/or associated caches and servers) that store the one ormore sets of instructions. The term “machine-readable medium” can alsobe taken to include any medium that is capable of storing, encoding, orcarrying a set of instructions for execution by the machine and thatcause the machine to perform any one or more of the methodologies of thevarious embodiments, or that is capable of storing, encoding, orcarrying data structures utilized by or associated with such a set ofinstructions. The term “machine-readable medium” can accordingly betaken to include, but not be limited to, solid-state memories, opticalmedia, and magnetic media. A variety of different types of memorystorage devices, such as a random access memory (RAM) or a read-onlymemory (ROM) in the system or a floppy disk, hard disk, CD ROM, DVD ROM,flash, or other computer-readable medium that is read from and/orwritten to by a magnetic, optical, or other reading and/or writingsystem that is coupled to the processing device, can be used for thememory or memories.

Overview

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is astandard for diagnosing psychiatric disorders in the United States. Yet,evidence has long suggested that symptoms in psychiatric disorders donot follow boundaries between DSM categories, implicating an underlyinglatent transdiagnostic dimensional structure. While abnormal featuredimensions associated with the latent symptom dimensions can beidentified within a single DSM category, the transdiagnostic dimensionalstructure shared across psychiatric disorders largely remains unknown.

Thus, the field of psychiatry can rely on making diagnoses andrecommending treatment for disorders based solely on clinicalphenomenology. However, this approach hampers prognostic assessment,treatment, and drug development. As with many other areas of medicine,defining mental illness based on a combination of symptoms andbiological underpinnings could allow for a richer understanding andpotentially better management of these disorders.

Moreover, dimensionality and comorbidity are pervasive in terms ofsymptoms across different DSM categories. Such dimensionality ismanifested as heterogeneity in symptom clusters within diseasecategories defined by the DSM as well as overlaps across DSM categories.For instance, in the area of anxiety and mood disorders, more than 50%of individuals are diagnosed of having more than one category ofdisorders according to the DSM at a given time. Similarly, about 50% ofbipolar disorder patients exhibit schizophrenic-like psychotic symptomsduring illness episodes. The presence of such psychotic symptoms can bemood-incongruent and can occur outside of illness episodes, hencecreating challenges in correctly categorizing and treating suchpatients. Overall, a latent trans-diagnostic dimensional structure mayexist spanning multiple disorders. The DSM's symptom-based taxonomy maynot provide an accurate account of such latent structure ofpsychopathology.

Furthermore, clinical symptoms such as depressed mood, anxiety, andanhedonia span multiple diagnostic categories, so one approach tolinking them with their biological bases would be examination of symptomseverity trans-diagnostically at suitable physiological levels. Thisapproach of stratifying mental disorders by symptom dimension acrosscurrent diagnostic categories could sidestep the main issue thatcategorical boundaries present. Evidence suggests symptom dimensionsthat span multiple psychiatric disorders and can be tied to biologicalbases.

This issue may be addressed by identifying the underlying structures ofpsychopathology on multiple levels including symptom, behavior,physiology, imaging, and genetics. Data-driven methods based on symptomand behavior have largely focused on classifying and subtyping patientswithin a single diagnostic category. While such a focus onre-partitioning a single diagnostic category is useful, it is likely tobe limited given the observed symptom overlaps across DSM categories. Onthe other hand, genetic risk for psychiatric disorders is pleiotropicand shared across broad dimensions of disorders, such as SCZ, BD, andADHD. Yet, the genetic risk identified for psychiatric disorder isgenerally characterized by polygenic inheritance, hence the effect sizefrom a given risk allele is likely to be small. Based on neuroimaging(e.g., sMRI), shared abnormalities in certain brain regions underlyingcommon psychiatric disorders were identified. Functional MRI (fMRI)found altered functional connectivity patterns shared across multiplecategories of disorders such as SCZ, BD, and MDD.

Though valuable, the search for psychiatric biomarkers has thus largelybeen limited to those that permit diagnostic classification andgenerally limited to one type, mode, or category of biomarker. Certainclinical phenotypes described at the symptom or neurobiological levelsmay span multiple diagnoses. Therefore, exploration of transdiagnosticbiomarkers that probe these levels of expression could expand ourunderstanding beyond categorical definitions of disorders and towardsdisorders that vary along symptom dimensions.

Therefore, the present disclosure contemplates that there exist distinctsubtypes within various mental health disorders (e.g., MDD, PTSD, andpanic disorder) based on, for example, orthogonal symptom dimensionsshared across the DSM diagnoses and their corresponding biomarkers. Thecorresponding biomarkers can include biomarkers identifiable inneuroimaging as discussed further herein and other modalities (includingadvantageously combining modalities). While these important sharedabnormal features associated with the latent transdiagnostic symptom andbehavior dimensions can be identified, the robustness of the identifiedfeatures in terms of their ability to reliably classify patientsaccording to the symptom and behavior dimensions are tested anddiscussed herein.

According to some implementations of the present disclosure, using theConsortium for Neuropsychiatric Phenomics (“CNP”) dataset, a set ofphenotypic features shared across schizophrenia (“SCZ”), bipolardisorder (“BD”), and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (“ADHD”)from self-reported clinical instruments is identified. For example, theset of phenotypic features are identified according to four (4)transdiagnostic classifiers: (1) Healthy vs. All Patients, (2) Healthyvs. SCZ & BD, (3) Healthy vs. SCZ & ADHD, and (4) Healthy vs. BD & ADHD.

These phenotypic features can robustly distinguish patient groups fromhealthy controls, and outperformed classifiers trained on morphologicaland connectivity measures based on structural and functional magneticresonance imaging. In addition, these phenotypic features encompass awide range of domains, including personality and traits, positive andnegative effects, cognition, sensory processing, and social processing.As an example, a highest proportion of shared phenotypic featuresconsists of personality traits and temperaments defined in theTemperament and Character Inventory pertaining to harm avoidance,novelty seeking, persistence, and reward dependence. Thus, the presentdisclosure provides a robust data-driven approach to identifytransdiagnostic features shared across various patient populations.

Cross-cutting symptom subtypes were identified in patients with majordepressive disorder (MDD), panic disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder(PTSD) or in healthy controls (HC) and mapped onto measures ofcognitive, physiological, and functional outcome measures. Rewardresponsivity, the lack of which is related to anhedonia, is tied todeficits in fMRI connectivity in a transdiagnostic sample of SZ, MDD,BD, and psychosis risk subjects. Derived symptom dimensions correlatedwith various network-based fMRI connectivity measures in a communitysample including representation of multiple psychopathologicalcategories. In some examples, ventral striatal connectivity can predictfuture depressive order.

Genetic risk variants correlate highly across MDD, SZ, BD, and attentiondeficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), suggesting that examiningsymptoms in this transdiagnostic group could be highly informative.Thus, the present disclosure capitalizes on the Consortium forNeuropsychiatric Phenomics (CNP) dataset which includes three of thesepatient groups (SZ, BD, ADHD, and additionally healthy controls) and arich set of clinical symptom evaluations and neuroimaging data forinvestigating biomarkers of symptom severity. One objective of thepresent disclosure is predicting severity for a subset of symptomsassessed in the dataset. In some examples, those datasets related tomood and emotional dysregulation are selected, for example,depression/depressed mood, anhedonia, anxiety, and other negativesymptoms.

While performing correlations is the dominant approach to examinevariation along a symptom dimension, the framework of machine learningovercomes some shortcomings of correlative approaches as it allows us tocreate models and test predictive value and generalizability of thosemodels on held out or new samples. Additionally, multivariate modelingallows a concurrent examination of phenotypes across the multiple levelsof expression of mental illness—levels of cognitive behaviors, symptoms,brain measures, etc. —which may improve predictive ability. According tosome implementations of the present disclosure, an exemplary method isdisclosed for sorting and evaluating features by importance in order toimprove biomarker development.

Further, the present disclosure provides for predictive models ofdepression, anxiety, anhedonia, and other negative symptoms. Differenttypes of machine learning (“ML”) models are utilized. Using the CNPdataset, predictability of the models is analyzed. The analysis furtherincludes a comparison of single v. multimodal features. This datasetincludes data from clinical scales, resting-state functional-MRI scans,and structural-MRI scans for patients with schizophrenia, bipolardisorder, ADHD, and healthy controls. Thus, the present disclosureprovides a custom, data-driven method of identifying subsets of the mostpredictive features. The present disclosure allows a comparison in anunbiased manner, via different permutations of input feature set and MLmodel choice. For example, the predictability is analyzed and comparedusing multi-modal biomarkers and single modality biomarkers. A subset offeatures that maximized predictability is identified from a set that isseveral orders of magnitude larger than the subset. As an example, suchsubset includes edge-level fMRI connectivity features, clinical scalefeatures, and sMRI features. Thus, the present disclosure provides forpredicting transdiagnostic symptoms related to depression, anxiety,anhedonia, and other negative symptoms.

Nonetheless, selection of the optimal features for exploring predictivemodels/biomarkers can be difficult in the face of high-dimensional,multi-modal data. An importance-weighted, forward selection approach istaken as a data-driven way to identify the optimal feature subset toinclude in regression model-building. Finding an optimal subset helps inhigh-dimensional cases where the number of features (p) is greater thanthe number of samples (n) to minimize overfitting of the models. It alsoreduces noise from uninformative input variables without requiring themodeler to judge whether a variable is signal or noise.

The importance-weighted, forward selection approach involves an initialrank-ordering step for ordering features by importance, aforward-selection search step for building a series of models utilizingsubsets of ordered features selected from the first step, and anevaluation step for evaluating each of these models using thesecandidate subsets according to a pre-specified criterion to find theoptimal model. Thus, this approach integrates feature selection intoregression modeling. Additionally, different types of input features areevaluated (e.g., responses to clinical symptom and trait scales,structural MRI measures, functional MRI measures).

Two different linear regression algorithms that incorporate featureselection through regularization (Lasso, Elastic Net) and one non-linearalgorithm (Random Forest) are also evaluated, in order to identify thebest parameters and biomarkers for our selected set of symptom types.Thus, another exemplary method is disclosed herein to findhighly-predictive biomarkers for several measures of depressed mood,anxiety, anhedonia and related negative symptoms and to compare thecontribution of single versus multimodality feature sets and differentalgorithms to biomarker-building.

As such, another objective of the present disclosure is to betterunderstand the features returned by the best biomarkers at a categorylevel. In line with the objectives herein, the present disclosure isdirected to, among others, that 1) multi-modal biomarkers that are morepredictive than single modality biomarkers, 2) data-driven methods thatidentify a subset of features and maximize predictability from a muchlarger set, and 3) from among that subset, analyzing edge-level fMRIconnectivity features, clinical scale features, and sMRI features. Inaddition, fMRI connectivity features can be broadly distributed acrossmany resting-state networks for most symptom biomarkers (though in someinstances, default-mode network connectivity can be more abnormal) andthat a few clinical scales are more highly represented than others.

Exemplary Systems and Methodologies

The present disclosure contemplates that a variety of systems can beused to perform various embodiments of the present disclosure. Referringnow to FIG. 28, an exemplary system 2800 is shown, which can beconfigured to perform various methods of the present disclosure,including methods 2900, 3000, and 3300 of FIGS. 29, 30, and 33,respectively. In particular, system 2800 includes a display 2802, a userinterface 2804, a control system 2806, and a memory 2808. In someexamples, the system 2800 further includes one or more servers 2810.

The user interface 2804 is configured to receive input from a user. Forexample, the user interface 2804 can be a keyboard, a touchscreen, amobile device, or any other device for receiving input, as known in theart. The user enters data on the user interface 2804 in response toprompts on the display 2802. For example, the display 2802 outputs aseries of mental health questions, and the user inputs an answer to eachquestion on the user interface 2804. In some examples, the userinterface 2804 directly displays the input on display 2802 and relaysthe data to the control system 2806. In some examples, the data is thenstored in the memory 2808.

The display 2802 is configured to receive data from the control system2806 and the user interface 2804. For example, the display 2802 displaysinput received from the user interface 2804; in some examples, the datais first sent to the control system 2806, which then processes the dataand instructs the display 2802 according to the processed data. In otherexamples, the display 2802 displays data received from the controlsystem 2806. Exemplary data from the control system 2806 includesquestions from a mental health questionnaire, answer boxes, answeroptions, answer data, or a mental health indicator. In some examples,the display 2802 is on a smart phone.

The present disclosure also contemplates that more than one display 2802can be used in system 2800, as would be readily contemplated by a personskilled in the art. For example, one display can be viewable by apatient, while additional displays are visible to researchers and not tothe patient. The multiple displays can output identical or differentinformation, according to instructions by the control system 2806.

The control system 2806 can be communicatively coupled to the display2802, the user interface 2804, and the memory 2808. Further, the controlsystem 2806 can be communicatively coupled to the server 2810. Forexample, the communication can be wired or wireless. The control system2806 is configured to perform any methods as contemplated according toFIGS. 29-30 (discussed further below). The control system 2806 canprocess and/or store input from the display 2802, the user interface2804, and the memory 2808. In some examples, the methodologies disclosedherein can be implemented, via the control system 2806, on the server2810. It is also contemplated that the server 2810 includes a pluralityof servers, and can be remote or local. Optionally, the control systemand/or the memory 2808 may be incorporated into the server 2810.

In some examples, system 2800 can be a unitary device, for example, asmart phone, which includes a display 2802, a user interface 2804, acontrol system 2806, and a memory 2808.

Turning now to FIG. 29, an exemplary methodology 2900 is discussed forevaluating a patient for mental health issues. Additional details andalternate steps for methodology 2900 are discussed further with regardsto FIGS. 1A-33 and the corresponding description.

Methodology 2900 begins at step 2910 which provides for displaying aseries of questions. An exemplary series of questions includes questionsfrom mental health questionnaires, and includes both text and answersfor each question. In some examples, the series of questions aredisplayed on a display device (e.g., the display 2802 of FIG. 28).

In some aspects, the series of questions includes questions determinedby a machine learning system (e.g., a machine learning algorithm) to beeffective at screening patients. The questions determined by the machinelearning system may be more effective than an initial and/or larger setof questions. For example, the machine learning system may be able topick a number of most effective questions out of an initial set ofquestions. An exemplary set of most effective questions includes whetherthe patient agrees with each of the following statements in the past twoweeks: “I have more fun doing activities with other people than bymyself”; “I have trouble concentrating”; “I have frequent mood changeswithout understanding why”; “I try to do well at everything I do”; “Ineed to think for a long time before I make a decision”; “I need a lotof self-control to keep myself out of trouble”; “I am often restless andcan't sit still”; “I am very affected when one of my friends seemsupset”; “My mood changes more than I think I should”; and “I do not getenough emotional support from other people.” An exemplary set of answersto each of those questions may include: “Strongly Disagree,” “Disagree,”“Neither agree nor disagree,” “Agree,” and “Strongly Agree.”

Methodology 2900 then provides for, at step 2920, receiving answers foreach of the series of questions (the questions provided for in step2910). In some examples, the answers are received at a user interface(e.g., user interface 2804 of FIG. 28). In some examples, the answersinclude selection of a multiple choice question, a textual response, orany other user input as contemplated by one skilled in the art. In someexamples, the answers are retrieved from a record entry corresponding toone patient in a database of patient records. This database can bestored in the memory 2808 of FIG. 28, for example. In some examples, thedatabase can be stored in the sever 2810 of FIG. 28. In some examples,methodology 2900 begins directly at step 2920.

Step 2930 provides for receiving unprocessed MRI data. The unprocessedMRI data corresponds to a set of MRI images of a biological structure.In some examples, the biological structure is associated with thepatient. In some examples, the MRI data corresponds to MRI data for apatient's brain (e.g., the same patient who provided answers at step2920). The MRI data can include task-based fMRI data, rs-fMRI data,and/or sMRI data. In some examples, step 2930 receives other types ofneuroimaging data instead of, or in addition to, the unprocessed MRIdata. In additional examples of step 2930, methodology 2900 can providefor receiving clinical scales data. In some examples of step 2930,methodology 2900 provides for receiving processed MRI data.

Step 2940 then provides for processing, using a machine learning model,the selection of answers from step 2920 and the data received at step2930 (e.g., the unprocessed MRI data). In some examples of methodology2900, the data received at step 2930 is preprocessed to identify aplurality of features.

At step 2950, methodology 2900 provides for outputting a mental healthindication of the patient. In some examples of the present disclosure,step 2850 performs processing of the answers and the received data asdiscussed further below with respect to methodology 3000 of FIG. 30 andmethodology 3300 of FIG. 33. In some aspects, the mental healthindication is categorical. For example, the mental health indicationincludes a determination that the processed selection of answers and theprocessed MRI data includes indications of at least one of: aneuropsychiatric disorder, schizophrenia, a bi-polar disorder, unhealthygenerally (versus healthy control) and any combination thereof.

In some aspects, methodology 2900 further comprises determining that theprocessed selection of answers and the processed MRI data identifiesfeatures corresponding to a mental disorder.

Even though methodology 2900 is illustrated to include steps 2910-2950,the present disclosure also contemplates more or fewer steps. Forexample, real-time user input is optional for some implementations ofthe present disclosure. As such, additional aspects of the presentdisclosure include a system configured to perform a method, similar tomethodology 2900 but not including real-time user input. For example,instead of first displaying a series of questions, this method beginswith receiving a selection of answers associated with a patient.

As another example, questions and answers from a mental healthquestionnaire is optional for some implementations of the presentdisclosure. As such, additional aspects of the present disclosureinclude a system configured to perform a method, similar to methodology2900 but not including a series of questions or a series of answers. Forexample, using a machine learning model, the unprocessed MRI data areprocessed to output a mental health indication of the patient, withoutreference to a selection of answers associated with a patient.

Referring now to methodology 3000 of FIG. 30, an exemplary methodologyis shown for selecting a machine learning model as a generalized linearmodel, according to various embodiments of the present disclosure. Insome examples, the machine learning model is any of: a generalizedlinear model, a logistical regression model, a regression model, asupervised regression method, random forest model, LASSO model, and anelastic net model.

In some examples, the machine learning model is any of the models andalgorithms discussed further below. In one embodiment of method 3000,the present disclosure provides two regularized general linear modelregression algorithms, LASSO and Elastic Net, and one non-linearregression model algorithm, Random Forest. Elastic Net in particular canbe used when the number of predictor variables is much greater than thenumber of samples.

In step 3010, methodology 3000 provides for receiving labeled trainingdata regarding mental health disorder status for a plurality ofindividuals. In some examples, the labeled training data identifieswhether each of the individuals has one or more mental health disordersand the mental health indicator of their symptoms. The labeled trainingdata includes, for each individual, a selection of answers to mentalhealth questionnaires and includes MRI data. The MRI data can betask-based fMRI data, sMRI data, and/or rs-fMRI data. In some examples,the labeled training data includes other types of neuroimaging data foreach individual. In some examples, the labeled training data includes,for each individual, an indication of any of: whether the individual ishealthy, whether the individual has a general mental health issue,whether the individual has one or more specific mental health disorders,whether the individual is at risk of developing a general mental healthissue, or whether the individual is at risk of developing one or morespecific mental health disorders. In some examples, the labeled trainingdata includes another functional and/or physiological measurementdataset, as known in the art.

In step 3020, methodology 3000 provides for determining features fromthe labeled training data of step 3010. The features are determinedaccording to any methods, as known in the art.

In step 3030, methodology 3000 provides for training an initial machinelearning model in a supervised manner, based on the features determinedin step 3020. In some examples, training this initial machine learningmodel includes using k-fold cross-validation with LASSO and Elastic Netregression.

In some examples, training this initial machine learning model in step3030 includes training the model on clinical scales data correspondingto the plurality of individuals. In some examples, training this initialmachine learning model in step 3030 includes training the model on fMRIfull connectivity data corresponding to the plurality of individuals. Insome examples, training this initial machine learning model in step 3030includes training the model on sMRI data corresponding to a plurality ofindividuals, the sMRI data including cortical volume data, corticalthickness data, and cortical surface area data.

In some examples, training this initial machine learning model in step3030 includes training the model on input data corresponding to theplurality of individuals. For each individual, the input data includes avariety of combinations of data. As a first example, the input dataincludes clinical scales data and fMRI data. As a second example, theinput data includes clinical scales data and sMRI data. As a thirdexample, the input data comprises fMRI data and sMRI data.

As a fourth example, the input data comprises fMRI data, clinical scalesdata, and sMRI data. This particular combination of input data providesa high r² metric (calculated on an untouched evaluation set data toavoid biasing and overfitting our models) when using Elastic Net acrossthe different outcome variables.

In step 3040, methodology 3000 provides for extracting importancemeasures for each of the features. These importance measures areselected based on the trained initial machine learning model.

In step 3050, methodology 3000 provides for generating a plurality ofsubset machine learning models, based on the extracted importancemeasures of step 3040.

In step 3060, methodology 3000 provides for evaluating a regressionperformance of the generated subset machine learning models from step3050. In some examples, each of the subset machine learning modelsincludes a different selection of features. In some examples, the subsetmachine learning models include only features with an importance measureabove a threshold value. In some examples, the features are ranked basedon the importance measure. In some examples, each of the subset machinelearning models includes a sequentially lower number of features than afollowing subset machine learning model, wherein the features areselected for each subset machine learning model based on a highestimportance measure.

In step 3070, methodology 3000 provides for selecting one of the subsetmachine learning models as a generalized linear learning model. Theselection is based on the regression performances as evaluated in step3060. The selected subset machine learning model includes a portion ofthe plurality of features determined from step 3020. The portion offeatures is selected from features with an importance measure above athreshold value. In some examples, more than one subset machine learningmodel is selected.

In some examples of step 3070, the threshold value is set so that atleast twenty features of the plurality of features determined in step3020 have an importance measure above the threshold value. In someexamples, the threshold value is set to select a portion of between tenand twenty features.

In some examples of step 3070, the features of the machine learningmodel are stored in a non-transitory processor-readable storage medium(e.g., memory 2808 of FIG. 28). The features can then be later used as ascreening tool. In some examples, the screening tool can output a mentalhealth indicator of a mental health condition. In some examples, thescreening tool assesses intermediate and/or end-point outcomes inclinical trial testing for treatment responses.

Therefore, the selected machine learning model can then be used toprocess any of the input data as provided for in the present disclosure.

Referring now to methodology 3300 of FIG. 33, an exemplary methodologyis shown for selecting a machine learning model as a diagnosticclassifier, according to various embodiments of the present disclosure.Methodology 3300 can be applied in place of, or in combination of,methodology 3000 of FIG. 30.

In step 3310, methodology 3300 provides for receiving labeled trainingdata regarding mental health disorder status for a plurality ofindividuals. The labeled training data includes data for a plurality ofindividuals, which indicate whether each of the individuals has one ormore of a plurality of mental health disorders. The labeled trainingdata further includes a selection of answers to mental healthquestionnaires for each of the individuals, and MRI data recorded foreach of the plurality of individuals.

In some aspects, the labeled training data of step 3310 includes, foreach individual, an indication of whether the individual is healthy,whether the individual has a general mental health issue, whether theindividual has one or more specific mental health disorders, whether theindividual is at risk of developing a general mental health issue,whether the individual is at risk of developing one or more specificmental health disorders, or the like, or any combination thereof. Insome aspects, the labeled training data of step 3310 further includesfunctional measurement data and/or physiological measurement data.

In step 3320, methodology 3300 provides for determining features fromthe labeled training data of step 3310. In some examples, the answersand MRI data of the received labeled training data are processed tooutput a plurality of features. The features are determined according toany methods, as known in the art.

In step 3330, methodology 3300 provides for training an initial machinelearning model in a supervised manner, based at least in part on thereceived labeled training data. In some examples, the initial machinelearning model is trained based on the features determined in step 3320.In some examples, training this initial machine learning model includesusing k-fold cross validation with logistic regression (e.g., with LASSOand/or Elastic Net regression).

In step 3340, methodology 3300 provides for extracting importancemeasures for each of the plurality of features. These importancemeasures are selected based on the trained initial machine learningmodel.

In step 3350, methodology 3300 provides for generating a plurality ofsubset machine learning models, based on the extracted importancemeasures of step 3340. In some aspects, each of the subset machinelearning models includes a different combination of the features of theinitial machine learning model. In some aspects, each of the subsetmachine learning models includes a different number of the features ofthe initial machine learning model determined by the importancemeasures.

In step 3360, methodology 3300 provides for evaluating a classificationperformance of the generated subset machine learning models from step3350.

In step 3370, methodology 3300 provides for selecting one of the subsetmachine learning models as a diagnostic classifier. The selection isbased on the classification performances as evaluated in step 3360. Theselected subset machine learning model includes a portion of theplurality of features determined from step 3320. The portion of featuresis selected from features with an importance measure above a thresholdvalue. In some examples, more than one subset machine learning model isselected. It is also contemplated that the selected machine learningmodel can then be used to process any of the input data as provided forin the present disclosure.

In some aspects, the selected subset machine learning model of step 3370includes a portion of the plurality of features. The portion selectedfrom features includes an importance measure above a threshold value. Insome aspects, each of the subset machine learning models includes adifferent selection of the portion of the plurality of features. In someaspects, at least twenty (2) features of the plurality of features havean importance measure above the threshold value. As an example, theportion of the plurality of features includes at least ten (10) featuresand less than twenty (20) features. As another example, the selectedsubset machine learning model includes M of the most important Nfeatures as determined by the importance measures, wherein M is aninteger between 10 and 20 and N is an integer greater than 20.

In some aspects, the diagnostic classifier of step 3370 is operative todetermine whether an individual is healthy or has a general mentalhealth issue. In some aspects, the diagnostic classifier of step 3370 isoperative to determine whether an individual is healthy or has aspecific mental health disorder. In some aspects, the diagnosticclassifier of step 3370 is operative to determine whether an individualhas a first specific mental health disorder or a second specific mentalhealth disorder. In some aspects, the diagnostic classifier of step 3370is operative to determine whether an individual is at risk of developinga mental health disorder.

In some aspects, the selected subset machine learning model of step 3370includes at least a subset of the following features, or any similarfeatures as known in the art.

-   -   “I have more fun doing activities with other people than by        myself”;    -   “I have trouble concentrating”;    -   “I have frequent mood changes without understanding why”;    -   “I try to do well at everything I do”;    -   “I need to think for a long time before I make a decision”;    -   “I need a lot of self-control to keep myself out of trouble”;    -   “I am often restless and can't sit still”;    -   “I am very affected when one of my friends seems upset”;    -   “My mood changes more than I think I should”; and    -   “I do not get enough emotional support from other people.”

In some aspects, the selected subset machine learning model of step 3370includes at least a subset of the following features, or any similarfeatures as known in the art.

-   -   “I like to please other people as much as I can”;    -   “There are often times when I am so restless that it is        impossible for me to sit still”;    -   “My mood often changes, from happiness to sadness, without my        knowing why”;    -   “Although there are things that I enjoy doing by myself, I        usually seem to have more fun when I do things with other        people”;    -   “I am more sentimental than most people”;    -   “I love to excel at everything I do”;    -   “People consider me a rather freewheeling and spontaneous        person”;    -   “I feel that I never really get all that I need from people”;    -   “In unfamiliar surroundings, I am often so assertive and        sociable that I surprise myself”;    -   “I like to think about things for a long time before I make a        decision”;    -   “Sometimes ideas and insights come to me so fast that I cannot        express them all”;    -   “I have many hobbies”;    -   “I like to keep my problems to myself”;    -   “It is difficult for me to keep the same interests for a long        time because my attention often shifts to something else”;    -   “How often do you have trouble wrapping up the final details of        a project, once the challenging parts have been done”;    -   “I like to go slow in starting work, even if it is easy to do”;        and    -   “Usually I am more worried than most people that something might        go wrong in the future.”

In step 3380, the features of the diagnostic classifier are stored forsubsequent use as a screening tool. In some examples, the features arestored in at least one nontransitory processor-readable storage medium,such as the memory 2808 of FIG. 28.

In some aspects, the methodology 3300 further provides for includesusing the features of the diagnostic classifier as a screening tool toassess at least one of intermediate or end-point outcomes in at leastone clinical trial testing for treatment responses.

In some aspects, the methodology 3300 further provides for furtherincludes using the features of the diagnostic classifier as a screeningtool to assess at least one of intermediate or end-point outcomes in atleast one clinical trial testing for treatment responses.

In some examples, the machine learning model of methodology 3300 can beimplemented in a machine learning training system. Similar to the system2800 of FIG. 28, the machine learning training system includes at leastone nontransitory processor-readable storage medium and at least oneprocessor communicatively coupled to the at least one nontransitoryprocessor-readable storage medium. The at least one nontransitoryprocessor-readable storage medium stores at least one ofprocessor-executable instructions or data. The at least one processor,in operation, is configured to receive labeled training data ofmethodology 3300 of FIG. 33.

As discussed herein, conventional diagnostic biomarker approaches do notfully account for the heterogeneity of symptoms under the umbrella of asingle diagnosis or the shared symptoms between multiple diagnoses. Itmust be noted that conventional clinical practice does not providetransdiagnostic, multimodal predictive models of mental health. Thus,based on the seven feature set input, such as the examples disclosedherein with regard to steps 3060 and 3070, various combinations offeature types are evaluated as inputs. For example, instead of onlyanalyzing one type of biomarkers, the various combinations of input datainclude single and multimodal feature sets. The experimental data hereinprovides that the multimodal models perform better than those of singlefeature sets. Therefore, the models disclosed herein can be highlypredictive based at least in part on their transdiagnostic and/ormultimodal data input.

Experimental Application and Disclosed Models—Part I

An experimental methodology is disclosed further herein which providesadditional examples of methodologies 2900-3000 and 3300, as would bereadily apparent to one skilled in the art. The experimental methodologyincludes experimental results which verify additional aspects of thedisclosed systems and methods; the experimental results further verifyadditional benefits of the present disclosure as compared againstconventional systems and methods.

The CNP Dataset

The CNP dataset is utilized. The CNP dataset contains rich data sourcesfrom a variety of modalities. The disclosure herein is focused onidentifying shared transdiagnostic features in the phenotype data in theform of clinical scales as well as neuroimaging data (including bothstructural MRI and resting-state functional MRI). The downloaded datasetin this disclosure included 272 subjects, of which 50 were diagnosedwith schizophrenia (SCZ), 49 with bipolar disorder (BD), and 43 withattention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The remaining 130subjects were age-matched healthy controls (HC) recruited from thecommunity. The diagnoses were given by following the Diagnostic andStatistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV; citeDSM) and were based on the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV(cite SCID). To better characterize ADHD related symptoms, the AdultADHD Interview (cite) was further used as a supplement. Out of allsubjects, 1 had incomplete phenotype data from the clinical scales usedin this disclosure, 10 had missing structural MRI (sMRI) data, and 10had missing resting-state functional MRI (fMRI) data. Fifty-five (55)subjects had an aliasing artifact in their sMRI data, whereas 22subjects had errors in the structural-functional alignment step duringMRI preprocessing. These subjects were excluded from the correspondingmodeling analyses performed during the methods disclosed herein. Thesubject numbers and demographics information are given in Table 1. InTable 1, the demographic information is based on initial number ofsubjects. The number of subjects with sMRI data excludes subjects withaliasing artifacts. The number of subjects with fMRI data excludessubjects with misaligned structural-function imaging data.

TABLE 1 Demographic Information HC SCZ BD ADHD Total No of subjects 13050 49 43 262 With complete phenotype 130 50 48 43 271 data With sMRIdata 98 30 44 34 206 With fMRI data 104 47 41 37 229 Age Mean age 31.2636.46 35.15 33.09 SD age 8.74 8.88 9.07 10.76 Range age 21-50 22-4921-50 21-50 Gender No. of female subjects 62 12 21 22 Percent femalesubjects 47.69% 24.00% 42.86% 51.16% Race American Indian or 19.23%22.00%  6.25%    0% Alaskan Native Asian 15.38%  2.00%    0%  2.33%Black/African American  0.77%  4.00%  2.08%  2.33% White 78.46% 66.00%77.08% 88.37% More than one race    0%  2.00% 14.58%  6.98% Education Nohigh school  1.54% 18.00%  2.08%    0% High school 12.31% 44.00% 29.17%23.26% Some college 20.77% 18.00% 25.00% 30.23% Associate's degree 7.69%  4.00%  6.25%  6.98% Bachelor's degree 50.00% 10.00% 29.17%32.56% Graduate degree  6.92%    0%  4.17%  2.33% Other  0.77%  4.00% 4.17%  4.65%

Phenotype Data

Subjects were administered a total of 20 questionnaires and scales tocapture a wide range of phenotypical data including specific behavioraltraits and symptom dimensions. These questionnaires/scales are eitherclinician-rated or self-reported. While the clinician-ratedquestionnaires only covered relevant patient groups, 13 self-reportedclinical scales were given to all three patient groups as well as theheathy controls. Therefore, subjects' answers to each of the individualquestions coming from these 13 self-reported scales are used as inputfeatures to the models. Specifically, the 13 self-reported scales usedin the methods are: Chapman social anhedonia scale, Chapman physicalanhedonia scale, Chapman perceptual aberrations scale, hypomanicpersonality scale, Hopkins symptom checklist, temperament and characterinventory, adult ADHD self-report scale v1.1 screener, Barrattimpulsiveness scale, Dickman functional and dysfunctional impulsivityscale, multidimensional personality questionnaire—control subscale,Eysenck's impulsivity inventory, scale for traits that increase risk forbipolar II disorder, and Golden and Meehl's Seven MMPI items selected bytaxonomic method.

MRI Data Acquisition Parameters

MRI data were acquired on one of two 3T Siemens Trio scanners bothhoused at the University of California, Los Angeles. The sMRI data usedin this disclosure are T1-weighted and were acquired using amagnetization-prepared rapid gradient-echo (MPRAGE) sequence with thefollowing acquisition parameters: TR=1.9 s, TE=2.26 ms, FOV=250 mm,matrix=256×256, 176 1-mm thick slices oriented along the sagittal plane.The resting-state fMRI data contain a single run lasting 304 s. The scanwas acquired using a T2*-weighted echoplanar imaging (EPI) sequenceusing the following parameters: 34 oblique slices, slice thickness=4 mm,TR=2 s, TE=30 ms, flip angle=90°, matrix size 64×64, FOV=192 mm. Duringthe resting-state scan, subjects remained still and relaxed inside thescanner, and kept their eyes open. No specific stimulus or task waspresented to them.

MRI Preprocessing—sMRI

Structural MRI preprocessing was implemented using Freesurfer'srecon-all processing pipeline. Briefly, the T1-weighted structural imagefrom each subject was intensity normalized and skull-stripped. Thesubcortical structures, white matter, and ventricles were segmented andlabeled according to the algorithm. The pial and white matter surfaceswere then extracted and tessellated, and cortical parcellation wasobtained on the surfaces according to a gyral-based anatomical atlaswhich partitions each hemisphere into 34 regions.

MRI Preprocessing—Resting-State fMRI

Resting-state fMRI preprocessing was implemented in AFNI. Specifically,the first 3 volumes in the data were discarded to remove any transientmagnetization effects in the data. Spikes in the resting-state fMRI datawere then removed and all volumes were spatially registered with the4^(th) volume to correct for any head motion. The Tlw structural imagewas deobliqued and uniformized to remove shading artifacts beforeskull-stripping. The skull-stripped structural image was then spatiallyregistered with motion corrected fMRI data. The fMRI data were furtherspatially smoothed using a 6-mm FWHM Gaussian kernel and converted topercent signal change. Separately, the Freesurfer-generated aparc+asegimage from sMRI preprocessing was also spatially registered with andresampled to have the same spatial resolution of the BOLD image.

Based on this, eroded white matter and ventricle masks were created,from which nuisance tissue regressors were built based on non-spatiallysmoothed fMRI data to model and remove variances that are not part ofthe BOLD signal. Specifically, the ANATICOR procedure is used where alocally averaged signal from the eroded white matter mask within a 25-mmradius spherical region of interest (ROI) centered at each gray mattervoxel was used to create a voxel-wise local estimate of the white matternuisance signal. This local estimate of the white matter nuisancesignal, along with the estimated head motions and average signal fromthe ventricles were detrended with a 4^(th) order polynomial and thenregressed out from the fMRI data. Finally, the clean resting-state fMRIdata was spatially normalized to the MNI template and resampled to have2 mm isocubic voxels.

Feature Extraction

Measures were extracted from 3 data modalities as features: phenotypedata from clinical scales, measures derived from the sMRI data, andfunctional correlations based on resting-state fMRI data. For phenotypefeatures from clinical scales, subjects' responses were directly usedfrom a total of 578 questions from the above listed 13 self-reportedclinical scales. Responses from non-True/False type questions werenormalized to have a range of between 0 and 1 to match those fromTrue/False type questions.

For sMRI features, the following were specifically used 1) the volume ofsubcortical structures generated by Freesurfer's subcortical volumetricsegmentation, and 2) the area, thickness, and volume of cortical brainregions estimated from Freesurfer's surface-based analysis pipeline. Forresting-state fMRI features, the brain is first parceled into 264regions. Specifically, a 5-mm radius spherical ROI was seeded accordingto the MNI coordinates of each brain region specified in the atlas.Second, the clean resting-state BOLD time series from all voxels withina given 5-mm radius spherical ROI were averaged to create therepresentative time series for the brain region. Third, functionalconnectivity between ROIs was estimated via the Pearson's correlationcoefficient between the average time series from all pairs of brainregions. This resulted in a 264-by-264 correlation matrix, from which34,716 are unique correlations between two distinct ROIs and were usedas input features to the models.

Model Fitting and Feature Importance Weighting

The primary goals of machine learning analyses in this disclosure aretwo-fold: 1) to establish robust transdiagnostic classifiers that canreliably separate patient groups from healthy controls, and moreimportantly 2) to identify important features commonly found acrosspatient groups distinguishing them from healthy controls. To achieve thefirst goal, the logistic regression model as implemented in thescikit-learn toolbox is utilized. Specifically, 4 transdiagnosticproblems based on the DSM diagnosis labels provided in the CNP datasetwere addressed: HC vs. All Patients, HC vs. SCZ & BD, HC vs. SCZ & ADHD,HC vs. BD & ADHD. Separate logistic regression models were independentlytrained using each of the above extracted feature modalities (e.g.,phenotype data, sMRI measures, and resting-state fMRI correlations) asinputs and their performances were evaluated in each of thetransdiagnostic scenarios. Combinations of 2 and 3 feature modalitieswere also used as classifiers' inputs and their performances wereevaluated in the same fashion.

Because the number of features extracted was relatively large comparedto the sample size in CNP data, the elastic net regularization term isadded in all of the logistic regression models to prevent overfitting.The elastic net regularization is a linear combination of the L1 and L2regularization terms and has advantages over L1 and L2 regularizationwhen dealing with high-dimensional data with small sample size andcorrelated features. The use of elastic net regularization in thesemodels also enabled feature selection as the regularization inducessparse models via the grouping effect where all the important featureswill be retained and the unimportant ones set to zero. This allowed forthe identification of predictive features that are shared acrossmultiple patient categories.

The elastic net regularized logistic regression implemented in thescikit-learn toolbox contains two hyperparameters: the overallregularization strength and the mixing ratio between the L1 and L2terms. The following procedure is adopted to determine the bestregularization parameters. First, the input data were randomlypartitioned into a development set and an evaluation set. Thedevelopment set contains 80% of the data upon which a grid search with3-fold cross validation procedure was implemented to determine the besthyperparameters. Then the model was trained on the entire developmentset using the best hyperparameters and was further tested on theremaining 20% of evaluation set which the model had never seen before toobtain testing performance.

All features were standardized to have zero mean and unit variancewithin the training data (the training folds in the 3-fold crossvalidation or the development set) and the mean and variance from thetraining data were used to standardize the corresponding test data (thetesting fold or the evaluation set) to avoid information spill-over fromtest data to training data. The entire process was implemented 10 timeson 10 different random partitions of the development and evaluationsets. The following metrics were used to quantify the modelperformances: area under the receiver operating characteristics curve(AUC), accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity. The mean and standarddeviation of the above metrics over the 10 evaluation sets werereported.

From the above trained models, one can assess how predictive eachfeature is since the weights of the logistic regression model in thetransdiagnostic classifiers represent the relationship between a givenfeature and the logarithm of the odds ratio of an observation being apatient. For each feature, its corresponding mean model weight iscalculated and divided by the standard deviation across the 10 modelimplementations as the proxy for feature importance. Such a featureimportance measure is analogous to the Cohen's d effect size measure andthus favored features with large weights and small standard deviationsacross the 10 model implementations. Features with large importancevalues from the transdiagnostic classifiers are potentially symptoms,traits, and neuropathological mechanisms shared across patient groupsbut are distinct from healthy controls.

Feature Importance-Guided Sequential Model Selection

Because the feature dimension of the input data is high compared to thesample size in the CNP dataset, the transdiagnostic classifiers usingthe full feature sets are likely to be subjected to a substantial amountof noise as well as features that are not predictive. The presence ofthose noisy features, especially when the sample size is small, mightimpede the ability of the models to achieve their best performances. Toinvestigate whether improved classification performances can be achievedfrom a reduced set of most predictive features, the following featureimportance-guided sequential model selection procedure is utilized.

Specifically, first the features in the transdiagnostic classifiers arerank ordered according to their feature importance measures. Next, aseries of truncated models was built such that each model would onlytake the top k most predictive features as inputs to perform the sametransdiagnostic classification problems. Let k range from the top 1 mostpredictive feature to all available features in steps of 1 for clinicalphenotype features, sMRI features, and the combination of the twofeature sets. For any feature or feature combinations involving fMRIcorrelations, because of the significantly increased feature dimension,the k's were chosen from a geometric sequence with a common ratio of 2(e.g., 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, . . . ).

Model performances were obtained for each truncated model and wereevaluated as a function of the number of top features (k) included ineach truncated model. To statistically test whether the models'performances are significantly above chance level, a random permutationtest is performed where labels in the data (e.g., HC vs. Patients) wereshuffled 100 times and models were trained on these label-shuffled datausing exactly the same approach as described above. The performancesfrom the 100 models were used to construct the empirical nulldistribution against which the model performance from the actual datawas then compared.

For example, FIGS. 1A-1D illustrate boxplots of the maximum AUC's duringsequential model selection (the models are discussed further with regardto FIGS. 28-30 and corresponding description). The box represents the1st and 3rd quartiles of the AUC's across 10 model runs. The linerepresents the median and the whiskers represent the range of data.

Experimental Results

In total, classifiers were trained and tested on seven (7) sets offeatures by either using each individual feature modality (clinicalscales, sMRI, and fMRI) or combinations of 2 or 3 feature modalities.The classifiers' performances using each of the seven (7) feature setson the 4 transdiagnostic cases are reported in Table 2.

TABLE 2 Performance of models using the full sets of features Scales +Scales sMRI fMRI s + fMRI Scales + sMRI Scales + fMRI s + MRI HC vs. AUC0.83 0.56 0.59 0.57 0.89 0.86 0.86 Patients (0.04) (0.05) (0.04) (0.05)(0.07) (0.06) (0.05) Accuracy 0.77 0.58 0.60 0.61 0.91 0.87 0.86 (0.05)(0.08) (0.06) (0.07) (0.04) (0.05) (0.05) HC vs. AUC 0.90 0.68 0.65 0.690.90 0.87 0.89 SCZ + BD (0.06) (0.09) (0.09) (0.08) (0.05) (0.06) (0.04)Accuracy 0.82 0.68 0.69 0.74 0.90 0.88 0.89 (0.05) (0.10) (0.08) (0.06)(0.05) (0.06) (0.04) HC vs. AUC 0.85 0.61 0.59 0.60 0.87 0.79 0.81 SCZ +(0.06) (0.07) (0.08) (0.08) (0.06) (0.07) (0.07) ADHD Accuracy 0.77 0.620.59 0.65 0.89 0.79 0.81 (0.05) (0.07) (0.08) (0.06) (0.05) (0.07)(0.07) HC vs. AUC 0.87 0.60 0.54 0.58 0.92 0.91 0.88 BD + (0.06) (0.06)(0.08) (0.09) (0.05) (0.05) (0.05) ADHD Accuracy 0.80 0.60 0.55 0.580.92 0.91 0.88 (0.07) (0.06) (0.08) (0.09) (0.05) (0.05) (0.05)

Overall, classifiers trained on feature sets involving phenotypical datafrom clinical scales (e.g., scales and scales+MRI feature sets)outperformed those only trained on MRI features (sMRI, fMRI, and s+fMRI)for all 4 transdiagnostic cases. For classifiers using featuresinvolving clinical scales, the mean AUC ranged from 0.79 to 0.92 (meanaccuracy: 0.77-0.92), whereas the mean AUC ranged from 0.54 to 0.69(mean accuracy: 0.55-0.74) for MRI feature sets.

The importance of each feature in terms of its predictability ofdistinguishing HC from patient populations was estimated by the meanover standard deviation of the weights from 10 implementations of theabove transdiagnostic classifiers. Based on this importance ranking ofeach individual feature, a set of truncated models were builtsequentially by including only the top k (k ranging from 1 to allfeatures) most predictive features in the models to identify the bestsubset of features producing the highest classification performance. Theperformance measures from the best truncated classification models areshown in FIGS. 1A-1D and Table 3, with the AUC from all transdiagnosticmodels being significantly above chance level as assessed via the randompermutation test (all p's<0.05; see FIGS. 7A-7D—illustrating actualAUC's (shown as a small circle) versus the distribution of AUC's fromclassifiers trained and tested on randomly nermuted class labels)

TABLE 3 Best model performance during sequential model selectionScales + Scales sMRI fMRI s + fMRI Scales + sMRI Scales + fMRI s + fMRIHC vs. Maximum 0.95 0.78 0.87 0.77 0.96 0.98 0.96 Patients AUC (0.02)(0.06) (0.08) (0.06) (0.03) (0.02) (0.03) Accuracy 0.88 0.71 0.85 0.770.87 0.92 0.90 (0.04) (0.06) (0.07) (0.06) (0.05) (0.04) (0.04)Sensitivity 0.87 0.81 0.86 0.77 0.93 0.91 0.94 (0.08) (0.09) (0.09)(0.08) (0.07) (0.06) (0.05) Specificity 0.88 0.60 0.84 0.76 0.80 0.920.85 (0.04) (0.16) (0.18) (0.07) (0.15) (0.04) (0.09) Median k ≠ 0 78124 7539 15569 147 32 57 (5.50) (5.00) (938.50) (883.25) (29.00) (0.00)(2.75) HC vs. Maximum 0.98 0.82 0.93 0.88 0.99 0.98 1.00 SCZ + AUC(0.02) (0.08) (0.05) (0.04) (0.01) (0.02) (0.00) BD Accuracy 0.92 0.730.87 0.86 0.94 0.92 0.87 (0.05) (0.04) (0.06) (0.04) (0.02) (0.07)(0.09) Sensitivity 0.94 0.52 0.82 0.90 0.95 0.99 0.72 (0.07) (0.15)(0.14) (0.07) (0.05) (0.02) (0.20) Specificity 0.90 0.88 0.91 0.83 0.930.85 1.00 (0.09) (0.06) (0.09) (0.07) (0.05) (0.13) (0.00) Median k ≠ 0126 111 7613 15325 54 233 230 (4.50) (4.25) (1028.75) (973.25) (4.50)(44.75) (9.50) HC vs. Maximum 0.99 0.86 0.73 0.93 0.99 0.99 0.99 SCZ +AUC (0.01) (0.05) (0.07) (0.05) (0.01) (0.01) (0.01) ADHD Accuracy 0.930.75 0.68 0.87 0.81 0.85 0.87 (0.03) (0.06) (0.07) (0.08) (0.06) (0.07)(0.06) Sensitivity 0.91 0.47 0.65 0.78 0.52 0.68 0.72 (0.08) (0.15)(0.13) (0.20) (0.16) (0.18) (0.16) Specificity 0.95 0.93 0.70 0.94 1.000.99 0.99 (0.03) (0.02) (0.15) (0.07) (0.00) (0.04) (0.02) Median k ≠ 090 125 13637 7216 280 422 405 (0.75) (10.75) (1455.75) (967.00) (13.75)(89.75) (91.75) HC vs. Maximum 0.97 0.73 0.87 0.75 0.98 0.99 0.99 BD +AUC (0.03) (0.06) (0.05) (0.06) (0.02) (0.01) (0.01) ADHD Accuracy 0.930.68 0.80 0.74 0.87 0.89 0.90 (0.03) (0.06) (0.10) (0.06) (0.06) (0.07)(0.04) Sensitivity 0.89 0.54 0.65 0.70 0.74 0.78 0.89 (0.07) (0.17)(0.28) (0.11) (0.18) (0.18) (0.13) Specificity 0.96 0.80 0.91 0.77 0.960.99 0.90 (0.07) (0.09) (0.07) (0.08) (0.07) (0.03) (0.09) Median k ≠ 094 87 7808 15682 95 225 206 (7.00) (8.75) (667.25) (576.75) (13.75)(19.75) (48.00)

Referring now to FIGS. 2A and 2B, the time complexity of theimportance-guided forward model selection procedure is illustrated. FIG.2A shows that he computation time (median across three implementations)grew linearly as the number of features increases in importance-guidedforward model selection procedure. The round dots represent the actualdata points, whereas the solid line is the best fitted regression line(slope: 0.03; intercept: 0.80). FIG. 2B shows that reduced computationtime was achieved via sequential model selection procedure (round dotswith solid line) compared to the estimated time complexity of a bruteforce feature selection procedure where all combinations of features areevaluated (triangles with dashed line).

Referring again to FIG. 2A, the median computation time across three (3)implementations of the feature importance-guided sequential modelselection procedure grew linearly as the number of input featuresincreased. As shown in FIG. 2B, complexity is much reduced compared tothe estimated time complexity from a brute force feature selectionapproach where all possible combinations of features were evaluated. Thecomputation time of the brute force approach increased exponentially asthe number of input features increased and quickly became intractableeven for very small number of features (FIG. 2B).

More importantly, significantly improved performance was obtained fromthe best truncated classification models compared with the correspondingmodels using the full sets of features (all p's<0.05 as assessed byrank-sum tests; Table 4). The test results were obtained usingWilcoxon's rank-sum test.

TABLE 4 Test results comparing performances of the best truncated modelsagainst the full Scales + Scales sMRI fMRI s + fMRI Scales + sMRIScales + fMRI s + fMRI HC vs. Test 100 100 100 99.5 82.5 100 95 Patientsstatistic p-value 0.000182 0.000181 0.000183 0.000211 0.01537 0.0001820.000769 HC vs. Test 94.5 91 100 99 100 94 100 SCZ + statistic BDp-value 0.000853 0.002152 0.000182 0.000245 0.000172 0.000977 8.74E−05HC vs. Test 100 100 92 100 100 100 100 SCZ + statistic ADHD p-value0.000179 0.000183 0.001699 0.000182 0.000179 0.000162 0.00018 HC vs.Test 96 94 100 96 88 95.5 100 BD + statistic ADHD p-value 0.000580.001008 0.000182 0.000577 0.00451 0.00063 0.000176

Referring now to FIGS. 3A-3D, illustrating the ROC from the truncatedmodels producing the best AUC using phenotype data as features. For allfour (4) transdiagnostic cases, the truncated classification modelsusing feature sets involving clinical scales had high performance withthe mean AUC ranging from 0.95 to 1.00 (mean accuracy: 0.81-0.94). Thesemodels performed better compared to those using feature sets basedsolely on MRI, which had mean AUC ranging from 0.73-0.93 and meanaccuracy ranging from 0.68-0.87. Among the truncated models usingfeature sets involving clinical scales, those using data only fromclinical scales can already achieve very high performance with AUCranging from 0.95 to 0.99 (see FIGS. 3A-3D). Combining MRI features withclinical scales do not seem to further improve the models' performance.

Turning now to FIGS. 6A-6D, AUC's are illustrated as a function of thenumber of top features included during sequential model selection. Thedark trace represents the mean AUC across ten (10) iterations of thesequential model selection procedure and the shaded area represents themean+/−1 standard deviation. As shown, the performances of all truncatedmodels in terms of AUC increased initially as the number of top featuresk increased. Interestingly, after reaching the highest classificationperformance, adding more features caused the performance to deteriorate,suggesting that increasingly amount of noise are present in featuresdeemed less predictive by the classification model.

The number of top features needed to produce the best truncatedclassification models for all four (4) transdiagnostic cases are listedin Table 3. The number of top features needed was relatively small formodels involving clinical scales: 85-130 out of 578 features for modelsusing only clinical scales; 58-312 out of 839 features for scales plussMRI feature set; 32-512 out of 35294 features for scales plus fMRI;64-512 out of 35555 features for scales plus sMRI and fMRI feature set.On the other hand, the number of top features needed to reach bestperformance for models involving fMRI was relatively large: 8192-16384out of 34716 features for fMRI alone; 8192-16384 out of 34977 featuresfor sMRI plus fMRI. For models using sMRI features alone, the modelcomplexity was relatively low (89-136 out of 261 features).

Based on the above analyses, models using phenotype data from clinicalinstruments produced high classification performance while at the sametime maintained a relatively low model complexity compared to modelsusing MRI-only features. This suggests that the phenotypical datacaptured by the 13 self-reported instruments may contain a compact setof shared features that are common across the patient populations butare highly distinct from healthy controls. Examining these sharedphenotypical features is further focused below.

FIG. 4 illustrates the percentage of questions from each of the thirteen(13) questionnaires among the set of most predictive questions producingthe highest AUC. “Barratt” represents Barratt impulsiveness scale;“bipolari” represents Scale for Traits that Increase Risk for Bipolar IIDisorder; “chaphypo” represents Hypomanic Personality Scale; “chapper”represents Chapman Perceptual Aberration Scale; “chapphy” representsChapman Physical Anhedonia Scale; “chapsoc” represents Chapman SocialAnhedonia Scale; “dick” represents Dickman Functional & DysfunctionalImpulsivity Scale; “Eysenck” represents Eysenck Impulsiveness,Venturesomeness & Empathy Scale; “asrs” represents Adult ADHDSelf-Report Scale v1.1 Screener; “golden” represents Golden and Meehl's7 MMPI Items; “Hopkins” represents Hopkins Symptom Checklist; “mpq”represents Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire—Control Subscale;and “tci” represents Temperament and Character Inventory.

To investigate these shared phenotypical features, the proportion ofquestionnaire items from each clinical scale selected to be among thetop set of features by the best truncated model (having the highest AUC)are shown in FIG. 4. For all four (4) transdiagnostic classifiers, itemsfrom all 13 instruments were selected to be among the top features bythe classifiers, which suggests that patient populations share a widerange of phenotypes that are distinct from healthy controls. Theseinstruments cover broad phenotypes and symptom domains encompassingpersonality and traits, positive and negative effects (reward, fear, andanxiety), cognition (attention, response inhibition/impulsivity),sensory processing (perceptual disturbances), and social processing.

FIGS. 5A-5D illustrate comparing the count of items from eachquestionnaire among the actual set of most predictive questions withthose from randomly ordered lists of questions. While all questionsincluded among the top features are highly predictive of patients fromhealthy controls, the instruments having the largest proportions amongthe top questions from all 4 transdiagnostic classifiers are thetemperament and character inventory, the hypomanic personality scale,and Eysenck's impulsivity inventory. To examine whether particularinstruments have significantly higher number of items among topquestions (reaching highest AUC) than chance, the list of questions 100times is shuffled and compared the number of top questions from eachinstrument obtained from the shuffled lists with the actual counts (seeFIGS. 5A-5D).

These items from such instruments may indicate traits and symptomdimensions strongly represented across specific patient populations. ForHealthy vs. Patients classifier, the temperament and character inventoryhad significantly higher count than chance. The individual items overallcovered aspects of temperament pertaining to harm avoidance, noveltyseeking, persistence, and reward dependence. For Healthy vs. SCZ & BDclassifier, both the hypomanic personality scale and the Golden andMeehl's Seven MMPI items had significantly higher count than chance. ForHealthy vs. SCZ & ADHD classifier, again the hypomanic personality scalehad significantly higher count than chance. For Healthy vs. BD & ADHDclassifier, the ADHD self-report scale v1.1 screener had significantlyhigher count than chance.

Additional Information

In this disclosure, robust transdiagnostic classifiers is built based onphenotype data obtained from clinical instruments and MRI data todistinguish SCZ, BD, and ADHD patients from healthy controls. Thefeature importance-guided forward model selection approach adopted inthis disclosure was shown to 1) produce transdiagnostic classifiershaving outstanding performance and 2) identify the set of mostpredictive features shared across the patient populations. Theclassifiers based on phenotype data from clinical instruments reliablypredicted patients from healthy controls. Interestingly, combining thephenotype data with MRI data did not significantly improve the results,suggesting that a robust set of features shared across patientpopulations can be found in phenotype data alone. Further investigationof the shared phenotypical features revealed that patient populationsshare a broad range of abnormal psychopathological dimensions spanningpersonality and traits, positive and negative affect, cognition, sensoryand social processing. Overall, a data-driven approach is presented,which does not rely on a-priori hypotheses to build robusttransdiagnostic classifiers and to mine the shared psychopathologicaldimensions across patient populations.

The use of machine learning tools in psychiatry to systematically searchfor consistent patterns in clinical data across disease categoriesdefined in DSM is an emerging trend. A substantial body of prior studieshave focused on patient subtyping within a given. The present disclosureincludes machine learning methods to develop transdiagnosticperspectives on the symptom dimensions and psychopathology. The machinelearning approaches can include classification, regression,dimensionality reduction, and clustering to mine the transdiagnosticsymptom dimensions underlying various psychiatric disorders.

Some machine learning approaches either adopted a hypothesis-drivenapproach wherein a subset of measures (e.g., phenotype data from a giveninstrument and/or neuroimaging measures from a set of brain regions)were preselected based on a priori knowledge, or used the full set ofinput features without considering their relative importance in terms ofpredictive ability. Such approaches may not be ideal since neither ofthem lets the algorithm to be trained on the optimal set of features.This disclosure uses feature importance to guide forward model selectionwhile building transdiagnostic classifiers to identify sharedpsychopathological features across multiple disease categories. Thesuperb performance of the truncated models selected via this modelselection approach demonstrate the robustness of the identifiedfeatures.

A broad set of phenotypes from the self-report clinical instruments wereidentified by the transdiagnostic classifiers to be shared across thepatient populations. The phenotypes are distributed across all 13self-reported clinical instruments and covers symptom domainsencompassing personality and traits, positive and negative effects,cognition, sensory and social processing. There are shared symptomdomains across SCZ, BD, and ADHD. In addition, these three disorders aresignificantly correlated risk factors for heritability. For SCZ and BD,shared features are identified both in terms of symptoms and theunderlying psychopathology and biology. Similarly, shared symptoms andbiology are identified between SCZ and ADHD. In addition, sharedfeatures are identified between BD and ADHD, along with high levels ofcomorbidity between them. Thus, this disclosure provides a data-drivenconfirmation on the shared phenotypes and symptoms across the threedisease categories.

An interesting finding is that in all four transdiagnostic classifiers,the temperament and character inventory had the largest proportion ofquestions among the set of most predictive questions determined by theclassifier. The personality traits and characters defined in the TCI areassociated with various mood disorders. Specifically, for disorders inthe CNP dataset, positive association can be found between personalitydimensions characterized in TCI and overall ADHD symptom as well assubtypes of ADHD. For SCZ, links are identified between positive andnegative symptom dimensions and TCI factors. Among BD patients,personality profiles are identified that are distinct from healthycontrols, and these profiles were further found to be shared with MDD.

Further, this disclosure establishes the usefulness of personalitytraits as a set of robust transdiagnostic features. The fact that theTCI had the highest number of questions among top features in all fourtransdiagnostic classifiers suggests a broad domain of sharedpersonality traits across these three patient categories.

While the transdiagnostic classifiers selected questions from all 13self-reported questionnaires, statistical tests between the actual countof questions from each questionnaire and those from a randomly shuffledimportance ordering revealed subtle differences between the classifiersfor different combinations of patient populations. These differences mayin particular reflect clustered personality traits and symptomdimensions across specific patient populations. For the HC vs. SCZ & BDcase, the elevated item count from the hypomanic personality scale isconsistent with the results obtained in the original paper by Eckbladand Chapman where high scorers on the hypomanic personality scalereported more schizotypical features in addition to increased hypomanicand depressive episodes. A 13-year follow-up of these high scorersshowed that they had more mood and psychotic-like symptoms compared tohealthy controls. Therefore, the items from the hypomanic personalityscale may capture these clustered symptom domains.

Additionally, the elevated item count from the Golden and Meehl's 7 MMPIitems may reflect clustered phenotypes from the so-called “schizotypy”dimension within SCZ and BD patients. For HC vs. SCZ & ADHD case, thehypomanic personality scale again had elevated item count. Symptomoverlaps are identified, as well as genetic links between ADHD andschizophrenia and other psychosis disorders. Specifically, off-springsof SCZ patients are found to be more likely to have higher ratings ofhyperactivity, which encompasses symptoms including increased activity,impulsivity, distractibility, and low tolerance for frustration. Suchexternalizing and attention problems are shared between ADHD andpsychosis among adolescents. Therefore, the selected items from thehypomanic personality scale may reflect the shared hyperactivity domainsacross SCZ and ADHD patients. Finally, for the HC vs. BD & ADHD case,the elevated item count from ADHD self-report scale v1.1 screener mayindicate the similar aspects between hyperactivity and manic symptoms aswell as other shared symptoms such as inattention between BD and ADHDpatients.

Experimental Method and Additional Details—Part II

An experimental methodology is disclosed further herein which providesadditional examples of methodologies 2900 and 3000, as would be readilyapparent to one skilled in the art. The experimental methodologyincludes experimental results which verify additional aspects of thedisclosed systems and methods; the experimental results further verifyadditional benefits of the present disclosure as compared againstconventional systems and methods.

Participants

Four groups of subjects were included in the sample which was drawn fromadults ages 21-50: healthy controls (HC, n=130), Schizophrenia patients(SZ, n=50), Bipolar Disorder patient (BD, n=49), and Attention Deficitand Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD, n=43). Stable medications werepermitted for participants. Diagnoses were based on the StructuredClinical Interview for DSM-IV (SCID) and supplemented with the AdultADHD Interview. Out of all subjects, one had incomplete clinicalphenotype data from the clinical scales used, 10 had missing structuralMRI (sMRI) data, and 10 had missing resting-state functional MRI (fMRI)data. Fifty-five subjects had an aliasing artifact in their sMRI data,whereas 22 subjects had errors in the structural-functional alignmentstep during MRI preprocessing. These subjects were excluded from thecorresponding modeling analyses performed.

The participant numbers and demographics information are given in Table5. In Table 5, the demographic information is based on initial number ofsubjects. The number of subjects with sMRI data excludes subjects withaliasing artifacts. The number of subjects with MIR data excludessubjects with misaligned structural-function imaging data.

TABLE 5 Participant Demographics HC SCZ BD ADHD No. of subjects 130 5049 43 With complete phenotype data 130 50 48 43 With sMRI data 98 30 4434 With fMRI data 104 47 41 37 Age Mean age 31.26 36.46 35.15 33.09 SDage 8.74 8.88 9.07 10.76 Range age 21-50 22-49 21-50 21-50 Gender No. offemale subjects 62 12 21 22 Percent female subjects 47.69% 24.00% 42.86%51.16% Race American Indian or 19.23% 22.00%  6.25%    0% Alaskan NativeAsian 15.38%  2.00%    0%  2.33% Black/African American  0.77%  4.00% 2.08%  2.33% White 78.46% 66.00% 77.08% 88.37% More than one race    0% 2.00% 14.58%  6.98% Education No high school  1.54% 18.00%  2.08%    0%High school 12.31% 44.00% 29.17% 23.26 Some college 20.77% 18.00% 25.00%30.23% Associate's degree  7.69%  4.00%  6.25%  6.98% Bachelor's degree50.00% 10.00% 29.17% 32.56% Graduate degree  6.92%    0%  4.17%  2.33%Other  0.77%  4.00%  4.17%  4.65%

CNP Dataset

Of the extensive behavioral testing that participants underwent, resultswere analyzed from tests of their symptoms and traits, eitherclinician-administered or self-reported. The self-reported tests used inour analysis include Chapman social anhedonia scale (chapsoc), Chapmanphysical anhedonia scale (chapphy), Chapman perceptual aberrations scale(chapper), Chapman hypomanic personality scale, Hopkins symptomchecklist (hopkins), Temperament and character inventory (tci), AdultADHD self-report scale v1.1 screener (asrs), Barratt impulsiveness scale(barratt), Dickman functional and dysfunctional impulsivity scale(dickman), Multidimensional personality questionnaire—control subscale(mpq), Eysenck's impulsivity inventory (eysenck), Scale for traits thatincrease risk for bipolar II disorder (bipolarii), and Golden andMeehl's Seven MMPI items selected by taxonomic method (Golden). Theclinician-administered scales used in our analysis include Hamiltonrating scale for depression (hamd), the Brief psychiatric rating scale(bprs), and Scale for the assessment of negative symptoms (sans).

All participants used in this sample also underwent magnetic resonanceimaging sessions with T1 scans (structural MRI) and T2* scans ofblood-oxygen-level-dependent (BOLD) resting-state functional-MRI andseveral tasks. The sMRI and resting-state fMRI data (304 seconds inlength) were utilized. Resting-state fMRI data were analyzed. Theresting-state fMRI data provided a fine-grained, data-driven set offunctional connectivity features that exhibit meaningful individualdifferences that relate to symptoms.

Preprocessing Data into Features

All responses to individual questions were used, from the 13 self-reportscales as input features for a total of 578 questions. Subjects who hadmissing values for any scales used in a particular model were notincluded in that model. Outcome variables for modeling depression,anxiety, anhedonia, and related negative symptoms were also selectedfrom clinical scales, either self-report or clinician-administered.

sMRI

Preprocessing of sMRI was performed using Freesurfer's recon-allprocessing pipeline. Briefly, the T1-weighted structural image from eachsubject was intensity normalized and skull-stripped. The subcorticalstructures, white matter, and ventricles were segmented and labeledaccording to the algorithm described in. The pial and white mattersurfaces were then extracted and tessellated, and cortical parcellationwas obtained on the surfaces according to a gyral-based anatomical atlaswhich partitions each hemisphere into 34 regions.

Preprocessing of fMRI was performed using AFNI. Preprocessing of eachsubject's echo planar image (EPI) data included several steps: removalof the first 3 volumes (before the scanner reached equilibriummagnetization), de-spiking, registration of all volumes to the now firstvolume, spatial smoothing with a 6 mm full-width half-maximum Gaussianfilter, and normalization of all EPI volumes by the mean signal torepresent data as percent signal change. Anatomical data also underwentseveral steps: deobliquing of the T1 data, uniformization of the T1 toremove shading artifacts, skull-stripping of the T1, spatial alignmentof the T1 and Freesurfer-segmented and -parceled anatomy to the firstvolume of the EPI data, and resampling of the Freesurfer anatomy to theresolution of the EPI data. Subsequently, the ANATICOR procedure wasused for nuisance tissue regression. White matter and ventricle maskswere created and used to extract the BOLD signals (beforespatially-smoothing the BOLD signal). A 25 mm-radius sphere at eachvoxel of the white matter mask was used to get averaged local whitematter signal estimates while the average ventricle signal wascalculated from the whole ventricle mask. Time series for the motionestimates, and the BOLD signals in the ventricles and white matter weredetrended with a 4^(th) order polynomial. To clean the BOLD signal, thenuisance tissue regressors and the six motion estimate parameters wereregressed out. Cleaned data residuals were used for all subsequentanalysis.

Both the preprocessed T1 scan and the cleaned residuals of the EPI scanwere warped to MNI space and resampled to 2 mm isotropic voxels. Thetime series of the cleaned residual data was extracted from each of 264regions of interest (ROIs) as delineated by the Power atlas. At eachROI, the signals from the voxels within a 5 mm radius sphere wereaveraged. Pearson's correlations were then calculated between theaveraged time series from all ROIs yielding 34716 unique edges in thefunctional connectivity graph (upper triangle of the full correlationmatrix). Quality control (QC) for MRI preprocessing was performedindividually on the whole dataset, and rejection decisions were made foreach participant's sMRI and fMRI data, respectively. Discrepancies wereresolved in order to create a final rejection list of participants.

Input features for each subject came from the three preprocesseddatasets: raw scores on the 578 individual items of 13 self-reportclinical scales, Freesurfer-calculated structural measurements(including subcortical volume, cortical volume, cortical area, corticalthickness), and AFNI-calculated functional connectivity scores betweenindividual ROIs. Subsets of these input features were used as predictorvariables in subsequent modeling as explained below. Output variablesthat were modeled included those which indexed depression, anxiety,anhedonia, or other negative symptoms. A mix of total scores, sub-scalesum or average scores, and individual question scores as each has theiradvantages.

These scores include the 28-question versions of the total HAMD score(‘hamd’), the HAMD subscore for questions 1, 7, and 8 (‘hamd178’,indexes a melancholic-type of symptom), the HAMD item score for question7 (‘hamd7’, indexes lack of interest or anhedonia), the Chapman SocialAnhedonia total score (‘chapsoc’), the Chapman Physical Anhedonia totalscore (‘chapphy’), BPRS negative subscore (‘bprs_negative’, the averageof negative symptom questions 13, 16, 17, and 18), BPRSdepression-anxiety subscore (‘bprs_depanx’, the average of depressionand anxiety symptom questions 2, 3, 4, and 5), Hopkins anxiety score(‘hopkins_anxiety’, the average of anxiety symptom questions 2, 17, 23,33, 39, and 50), Hopkins depression score (‘hopkins_depression’, theaverage of depression symptom questions 5, 15, 19, 20, 22, 26, 29, 30,31, 32, and 54), Bipolar ii mood score (‘bipolarii_mood’, the sum ofmood questions 1-9), Bipolar ii anxiety score (‘bipolar_anxiety’, thesum of anxiety questions 24-31), SANS anhedonia factor score(‘sans_factor_anhedonia’, the average of anhedonia questions 17, 18, 19,and 20), SANS anhedonia global score (‘sans_global_anhedonia’, questions21 which is the clinician's overall anhedonia assessment score), SANSavolition factor score (‘sans_factor_avolition’, the average ofavolition items 12, 13, 14, and 15), SANS avolition global score(‘sans_globals_avolition’, question 16 which is the clinician's overallavolition assessment score), SANS blunt affect factor score(‘sans_factor_bluntaffect’, the average of affective flattening items 1,2, 3, 4, 5, and 6), SANS blunt affect global score(‘sans_global_bluntaffect’, question 7 which is the clinician's overallblunt affect assessment score), SANS alogia factor score(‘sans_factor_alogia’, the average of alogia items 8, 9, and 10), SANSalogia global score (‘sans_global_alogia’, question 11 which is theclinician's overall alogia assessment score), SANS attention factorscore (‘sans_factor_attention’, the average of attention items 22 and23), and SANS attention global score (‘sans_global_attention’, question24 which is the clinician's overall attention assessment score).

Sum scores are commonly accepted by the FDA regarding positive efficacyresults, but using only sum scores may obfuscate brain-behaviorrelationships at more fine-grained levels of symptoms. Subjects withmissing values (“n/a”) for any input or output variables or who did notpass MRI QC were removed from the input set. As different input featuresets were used, different models had different sample sizes. Theavailability of clinical scores for particular clinical scales takenonly by certain subsets of patients also affected the final sample sizefor each model. The samples sizes resulting from these factors arelisted in Table 6.

TABLE 6 Sample size for each model Scales_ Scales_ sMRI_ PredictedScores Scales sMRI sMRI Scales_sMRI sMRI_fMRI fMRI fMRI Chapman SocialAnhedonia 271 206 147 205 117 146 116 Chapman Physical 271 206 147 205117 146 116 Anhedonia HAMD, total score 141 108 82 107 63 81 62 HAMD,q1, 7, 8 sum score 140 108 82 107 63 81 62 HAMD, q7 140 108 82 107 63 8162 BPRS, negative score 141 108 82 107 63 81 62 BPRS, depression-anxiety141 108 82 107 63 81 62 score Hopkins, anxiety score 271 206 147 205 117146 116 Hopkins, depression score 271 206 147 205 117 146 116 BipolarII, depression score 271 206 147 205 117 146 116 Bipolar II, anxietyscore 271 206 147 205 117 146 116 SANS, anhedonia factor 99 75 54 74 4053 39 score SANS, avolition factor score 99 75 54 74 40 53 39 SANS,blunt affect factor 99 75 54 74 40 53 39 score SANS, alogia factor score99 75 54 74 40 53 39 SANS, attention factor score 99 75 54 74 40 53 39SANS, anhedonia global 98 75 54 74 40 53 39 score SANS, avolition globalscore 99 75 54 74 40 53 39 SANS, blunt affect global 99 75 54 74 40 5339 score SANS, alogia global score 99 75 54 74 40 53 39 SANS, attentionglobal score 99 75 54 74 40 53 39

Regression Modeling

All regression modeling was performed with a combination of custompython code and the python toolbox scikit-learn. Twenty-one (21)different sum, sub-, or individual item scores were modeled across theclinical scales. For each of the 21 models, seven combinations offeature types were used as the inputs to be able to evaluate performanceof single- and multi-modal feature sets. These included clinical scalesonly, sMRI only, fMRI only, scales+sMRI, scales+fMRI, sMRI+fMRI, andscales+sMRI+fMRI.

As input features varied in their mean values and regularized modelsrequire normally-distributed data, scaled each input feature was scaledseparately to have zero mean and unit variance. For each scale outputand feature set input, used two regularized general linear modelregression algorithms were used—Lasso and Elastic Net—and one non-linearregression model algorithm—Random Forest—for the modeling. These methodsimprove prediction accuracy and interpretability over regular regressionmethods using ordinary least squares.

The Lasso approach uses regularization by imposing an L₁-penaltyparameter to force some coefficients to zero; this step introduces modelparsimony that benefits interpretability and predictive performance. Ifpredictor variables are correlated, however, the Lasso approach willarbitrarily force only a subset of them to zero which makesinterpretation of specific features more difficult. The Elastic Netalgorithm uses both L₁- and L2-penalty parameters to better be able toretain groups of correlated predictor variables; this improvesinterpretability as highly predictive features will not randomly be setto zero thereby diminishing their importance to the model. It is alsobetter suited in cases when the number of predictor variables is muchgreater than the number of samples (p>>n). The non-linear regressionalgorithm Random Forest was also chosen for comparison purposes.

Thus, 441 (21×7×3) sets of models were built. For each of these sets ofmodels, hyperparameters were tuned using 5-fold cross-validatedgrid-search on a training set of data (80% of data), and selectedhyperparameters were used on a separate evaluation set of data (20%held-out sample). The hyperparameter range for Lasso was alpha=[0.010.03 and 0.1] (three samples through the log space of [0.01:0.1]).Hyperparameter ranges for Elastic Net were alpha=[0.01 0.03 and 0.1] and11 ratio=[0.1 0.5 0.9]. And hyperparameter ranges for Random Forestincluded number of estimators=[10 100] and minimum samples at a leaf=[15 10]. The best hyperparameters were chosen from the model thatmaximized the r² score (coefficient of determination) across the 5-foldcross-validation procedure in the training set. All subsequent modelswere built using the best hyperparameters for that set.

FIG. 8A illustrates X-Y plots of number of features versus predictedoutcome scores. For example, predicting the total HAMD score usingElastic Net and scales+sMRI+fMRI as input illustrates how median MSE(left, top) and median r² (left, bottom) varies with each featuresubset, each with standard deviation bars. FIG. 8B illustrates acomparison of measured outcome scores and predicted outcome scores. Forexample, measured versus predicted outcome scores (right) illustrate howclosely the model predictions are to actual outcome scores forindividuals in the held-out sample.

Referring generally to FIGS. 8A-9B, for each of the 441 sets of models,an importance-weighted, forward selection approach was used toregression modeling, which involves the following steps: (1) an initialrank-ordering step for ordering features by importance, (2) aforward-selection search step for building a series of models utilizingsubsets of ordered features selected from the first step, and (3) anevaluation step for evaluating each of these models using thesecandidate subsets according to a pre-specified criterion to find theoptimal model. This approach thus integrates feature selection intomodeling.

Each step utilized the grid-search procedure to optimize hyperparametersas explained above. First, the feature rank-ordering step uses the fullfeature set (either scale only, sMRI only, etc.) as the input to themodel algorithms which returns not only predicted values for theevaluation dataset but also the importance of each feature for theresulting model. Feature importance was assessed from the regressioncoefficients with ordering (most important to least important) based onthe absolute value of the coefficient. Ordering by absolute valuereflects that features with the largest magnitude influence the symptomseverity scores the most. Feature ordering was performed separately forLasso and Elastic Net models, but as feature importance is harder toassess for the Random Forest algorithm, the ordering from the ElasticNet models was used as input for the subsequent steps of Random Forestmodeling instead.

Second, the forward-selection search step systematically searchesthrough subsets of the rank-ordered features for the subset that leadsto the best model. Since having more features than samples increases therisk of overfitting and uninformative features add noise which decreasesmodel performance, a data-driven method of searching the ordered featurespace was selected for an optimal subset of features. A series ofregressions was run on subsets of the ordered features with subsetschosen in powers of 2 (e.g., inputting the top feature only, the top 2features only, the top 4 features only, etc.) up to 2¹⁵ features. Inorder to generate descriptive statistics for this step, twenty-five (25)iterations of modeling for each feature subset were used to get medianand standard deviation metric scores. The metrics chosen for the finalstep of evaluation were mean squared error (MSE) and r². The median r²and standard deviation of r² were found for each subset.

The best model overall was selected by finding the maximum median r²value over all feature subsets and selecting the model that correspondedto that max median r² value (FIGS. 9A-9B). All subsequent follow up ison the 441 best models for each combination of input x model type xoutput. To find which input feature set (clinical scales only, sMRIonly, fMRI only, scales+sMRI, scales+fMRI, sMRI+fMRI, andscales+sMRI+fMR) and which model type (Lasso, Elastic Net, RandomForest) lead to the best biomarkers, subsequent comparisons were alsomade based on the r² of the best models. The r² is a standardizedmeasurement of explained variance while the MSE values are notstandardized across the different models making it less appropriate touse MSE for comparison.

Experimental Results

Within a multi-modal dataset, the best biomarkers were found for symptomseverity. Of the 441 sets of models created, the best median MSE, r²,and number of features chosen for the best model are listed by inputtype in Tables 7-15.

TABLE 7 Models with scales as Input Feature Set Predicted Scores MetricLasso ElasticNet RandomForest Chapman Social median MSE 11.127119212.5102035 18.52422909 Anhedonia median r² 0.79553146 12.51020350.663112391 p 60 126 n/a Chapman median MSE 22.1445803 19.6696829.07554113 Physical median r² 0.62740091 0.64236923 0.390169303Anhedonia p 30 240 n/a HAMD, total median MSE 43.793948 39.548730355.91616365 score median r² 0.64032781 0.68561252 0.52124878 p 31 30 n/aHAMD, q1, 7, 8 median MSE 2.01814843 1.66515201 2.259603571 sum scoremedian r² 0.57873064 0.62740408 0.450071051 p 30 111 n/a HAMD, q7 medianMSE 0.62723587 0.64544389 0.728892857 median r² 0.53344986 0.506683280.358667497 p 31 31 n/a BPRS, negative median MSE 0.26698062 0.255664740.265797419 score median r² 0.31461782 0.31801616 0.322618632 p 15 16n/a BPRS, median MSE 0.41526043 0.49462448 0.645597869 depression-median r² 0.69385756 0.63793659 0.506121615 anxiety score p 29 15 n/aHopkins, anxiety median MSE 0.12342578 0.13413996 0.132160047 scoremedian r² 0.56143153 0.5247619 0.514104345 p 16 54 n/a Hopkins, medianMSE 0.12009199 0.14761639 0.157354172 depression score median r²0.55009395 0.52978675 0.487804566 p 30 50 n/a Bipolar II, median MSE1.48573552 1.48573552 1.48573552 depression score median r² 0.791400840.79140084 0.79140084 p 53 53 53 Bipolar II, median MSE 1.143869841.25201497 1.432082609 anxiety score median r² 0.60840301 0.615872070.527387046 p 55 62 n/a SANS, anhedonia median MSE 0.83876628 0.595762260.956182813 factor score median r² 0.47594879 0.54907114 0.35565793 p 831 n/a SANS, avolition median MSE 0.75904172 0.53277714 0.842343438factor score median r² 0.37282752 0.52685866 0.277248843 p 16 95 n/aSANS, blunt median MSE 0.35110694 0.29422649 0.467130979 affect factormedian r² 0.50744677 0.63150632 0.404207334 score p 27 30 n/a SANS,alogia median MSE 0.30051278 0.28023609 0.261009716 factor score medianr² 0.47299533 0.45477607 0.347271029 p 16 21 n/a SANS, attention medianMSE 0.86509729 0.51250215 0.83855625 factor score median r² 0.191954970.55007444 0.306327586 p 23 31 n/a SANS, anhedonia median MSE 0.979970040.77234958 1.3385 global score median r² 0.48838999 0.511346020.280770186 p 30 97 n/a SANS, avolition median MSE SANS, avolition SANS,avolition SANS, avolition global score global score global score globalscore median r² SANS, avolition SANS, avolition SANS, avolition globalscore global score global score p SANS, avolition SANS, avolition SANS,avolition global score global score global score SANS, blunt median MSE0.7771112 0.73140944 1.117416344 affect global median r² 0.514910930.51498925 0.279459854 score p 28 16 n/a SANS, alogia median MSE0.47215453 0.38144655 0.7015 global score median r² 0.521957160.56271799 0.175649402 p 48 54 n/a SANS, attention median MSE 1.08880591.14883735 1.33584404 global score median r² 0.36828624 0.375819680.207184361 p 16 23 n/a

TABLE 8 Models with sMRI as Input Feature Set Predicted Scores MetricLasso ElasticNet RandomForest Chapman Social median MSE 46.643687643.8925147 56.19190933 Anhedonia median r² 0.13059127 0.064920860.018169833 p 32 32 n/a Chapman median MSE 45.608347 42.834649251.84063311 Physical median r² 0.08315395 0.1578689 0.051603031Anhedonia p 29 61 n/a HAMD, total median MSE 106.7787 126.52325148.4359545 score median r² 0.18545856 0.13091374 −0.028624069 p 30 63n/a HAMD, q1, 7, 8 median MSE 3.91992524 3.6155941 4.89586655 sum scoremedian r² 0.24368153 0.41216092 0.029851586 p 12 32 n/a HAMD, q7 medianMSE 1.09102119 1.03588134 1.235452088 median r² 0.233324 0.250764980.094440028 p 12 8 n/a BPRS, negative median MSE 0.39982436 0.323352760.402057778 score median r² 0.00824425 −0.0155099 −0.007323061 p 4 0 n/aBPRS, median MSE 1.15920977 0.95818565 1.451526015 depression- median r²0.17862626 0.28621436 0.054920555 anxiety score p 16 16 n/a Hopkins,anxiety median MSE 0.26190654 0.25999248 0.305197627 score median r²0.0345918 0.04196626 −0.024837299 p 3 6 n/a Hopkins, median MSE0.28184369 0.29874141 0.312998029 depression score median r² 0.026058570.01897287 0.013456599 p 4 3 n/a Bipolar II, mood median MSE 6.603975226.40784263 6.606565127 score median r² 0.04096752 0.12327275 0.000331189p 15 22 n/a Bipolar II, median MSE 2.96567459 2.86508927 3.207035714anxiety score median r² 0.0553218 0.12103751 −0.038229814 p 15 16 n/aSANS, anhedonia median MSE 1.2865302 1.37559255 1.500729847 factor scoremedian r² 0.07116012 0.0838163 0.049659227 p 1 7 n/a SANS, avolitionmedian MSE 0.84434359 0.68288494 1.226599689 factor score median r²0.06990071 0.25025035 −0.055433989 p 8 16 n/a SANS, blunt median MSE1.02091208 0.73699746 0.860400744 affect factor median r² −0.03971320.17453646 −0.048103458 score p 6 8 n/a SANS, alogia median MSE0.48120689 0.42570429 0.45733438 factor score median r² 0.136443230.14511349 0.125931485 p 2 4 n/a SANS, attention median MSE 1.19227491.10667518 1.225370598 factor score median r² 0.05745299 0.079085870.022559648 p 2 10 n/a SANS, anhedonia median MSE 1.69045647 1.313580162.053971977 global score median r² 0.11891888 0.26245368 0.008426596 p 716 n/a SANS, avolition median MSE 1.33022003 1.81957272 1.972625302global score median r² 0.24852834 0.11766409 -0.052500711 p 15 8 n/aSANS, blunt median MSE 1.70285398 1.28177902 1.779535383 affect globalmedian r² −0.0107927 0.21717229 −0.0705761 score p 20 30 n/a SANS,alogia median MSE 1.0508356 0.69226706 1.125291206 global score medianr² −0.0546058 0.12641629 −0.046307774 p 2 16 n/a SANS, attention medianMSE 1.39313125 1.23859557 1.600134651 global score median r² 0.053512070.18494907 0.018476896 p 15 8 n/a

TABLE 9 Models with fMRI as Input Feature Set Predicted Scores MetricLasso ElasticNet RandomForest Chapman Social median MSE 24.136671113.2464801 35.74676667 Anhedonia median r² 0.5908661 0.73192290.258061818 p 75 345 n/a Chapman median MSE 30.901329 21.405702939.74679883 Physical median r² 0.61525222 0.65566807 0.247477881Anhedonia p 76 358 n/a HAMD, total median MSE 33.2005788 38.972541571.34669412 score median r² 0.66777371 0.59569346 0.207388274 p 16 500n/a HAMD, q1, 7, 8 median MSE 0.95578396 0.91593487 2.650023529 sumscore median r² 0.79179955 0.74061902 0.332485876 p 28 191 n/a HAMD, q7median MSE 0.31201916 0.37790437 0.808070588 median r² 0.732001990.69881084 0.356340961 p 38 54 n/a BPRS, negative median MSE 0.187579380.1506109 0.241262868 score median r² 0.58051551 0.57369558 0.279867098p 15 131 n/a BPRS, median MSE 0.48898993 0.38228361 0.69174958depression- median r² 0.51218225 0.54291803 0.343333691 anxiety score p23 36 n/a Hopkins, anxiety median MSE 0.16332994 0.10991548 0.250750368score median r² 0.4518252 0.65341477 0.307182751 p 24 85 n/a Hopkins,median MSE 0.14661675 0.1591489 0.206618425 depression score median r²0.48845674 0.45016098 0.280274072 p 31 29 n/a Bipolar II, median MSE2.2093303 2.53026198 4.058693333 depression score median r² 0.643416780.62534857 0.323775594 p 50 255 n/a Bipolar II, median MSE 1.745022310.98772213 2.523746667 anxiety score median r² 0.48106 0.64425450.304516018 p 43 153 n/a SANS, anhedonia median MSE 0.572499930.44668826 0.671989773 factor score median r² 0.54341834 0.726031190.476297105 p 16 66 n/a SANS, avolition median MSE 0.38427335 0.413498870.523188636 factor score median r² 0.60922858 0.68171714 0.393902033 p20 63 n/a SANS, blunt median MSE 0.35097663 0.13853868 0.319771716affect factor median r² 0.36340364 0.81112876 0.421756359 score p 22 29n/a SANS, attention median MSE 0.5114133 0.5450171 0.863740909 factorscore median r² 0.58044727 0.55803846 0.351176332 p 11 16 n/a SANS,anhedonia median MSE 0.6479366 0.653431 0.703936364 global score medianr² 0.57849286 0.5910022 0.567246117 p 13 22 n/a SANS, avolition medianMSE 0.65626457 0.45879379 1.112490909 global score median r² 0.655018180.7356483 0.41697963 p 8 126 n/a SANS, blunt median MSE 0.768060320.40498193 0.725527273 affect global median r² 0.5075324 0.677179990.438660494 score p 20 18 n/a SANS, alogia median MSE 0.180586360.25612571 0.360454545 global score median r² 0.71239653 0.449745540.20472973 p 12 21 n/a SANS, attention median MSE 0.82370349 0.844738421.018854545 global score median r² 0.53408014 0.55862342 0.381446429 p 870 n/a

TABLE 10 Models with sMRI + fMRI as Input Feature Set Predicted ScoresMetric Lasso ElasticNet RandomForest Chapman Social median MSE20.3800964 14.682152 34.56825833 Anhedonia median r² 0.612873350.67729341 0.271666677 p 30 559 n/a Chapman median MSE 29.594432114.4191528 39.64058054 Physical median r² 0.47730737 0.739883890.270972364 Anhedonia p 72 211 n/a HAMD, total median MSE 40.44450227.0655892 65.45605995 score median r² 0.46827069 0.61111933 0.317391988p 13 448 n/a HAMD, q1, 7, 8 median MSE 2.36930173 1.3053619 2.42418007sum score median r² 0.57469992 0.78027275 0.415661799 p 21 78 n/a HAMD,q7 median MSE 0.48427727 0.44843705 0.733507692 median r² 0.517607480.62850068 0.374694444 p 4 95 n/a BPRS, negative median MSE 0.108949050.20808541 0.228798077 score median r² 0.58309527 0.48416688 0.339701299p 10 12 n/a BPRS, median MSE 0.74672192 0.4527803 0.745567681depression- median r² 0.34811518 0.59421236 0.305609826 anxiety score p15 119 n/a Hopkins, anxiety median MSE 0.12090694 0.09822079 0.189571301score median r² 0.55139531 0.65036656 0.303938076 p 8 29 n/a Hopkins,median MSE 0.17540687 0.1383836 0.199493796 depression score median r²0.38018872 0.4151432 0.199243267 p 21 16 n/a Bipolar II, median MSE3.58417568 1.86722182 4.104375843 depression score median r² 0.454761090.71921058 0.297745091 p 48 241 n/a Bipolar II, median MSE 1.280263650.70325067 2.257191667 anxiety score median r² 0.60209066 0.789356980.32304625 p 25 161 n/a SANS, anhedonia median MSE 0.40512803 0.357005210.63381875 factor score median r² 0.71570239 0.77152059 0.552279155 p 848 n/a SANS, avolition median MSE 0.18738998 0.11302804 0.45203125factor score median r² 0.67281 0.84257768 0.519285076 p 7 41 n/a SANS,blunt median MSE 0.1055558 0.16598636 0.406562166 affect factor medianr² 0.7535557 0.76532171 0.476367098 score p 24 65 n/a SANS, attentionmedian MSE 0.40859079 0.11637806 0.236031927 factor score median r²0.29255013 0.7725277 0.559877681 p 7 77 n/a SANS, anhedonia median MSE0.88823187 0.57576394 1.095494073 global score median r² 0.401612210.63872035 0.319304654 p 17 107 n/a SANS, avolition median MSE0.55331606 0.21081588 0.7125 global score median r² 0.561053660.82726123 0.5096 p 6 67 n/a SANS, blunt median MSE 0.761938850.26705401 0.75875 affect global median r² 0.5411395 0.840124850.526436782 score p 11 41 n/a SANS, alogia median MSE 0.528870250.25762776 0.3487375 global score median r² 0.31534639 0.651016230.320888889 p 8 26 n/a SANS, attention median MSE 0.35172813 0.288867160.5875 global score median r² 0.70380789 0.75674345 0.5975 p 8 13 n/a

TABLE 11 Models with Scales + sMRI as Input Feature Set Predicted ScoresMetric Lasso ElasticNet RandomForest Chapman Social median MSE10.1872913 10.8473571 23.01353415 Anhedonia median r² 0.81896870.79591289 0.599748178 p 59 63 n/a Chapman median MSE 15.164873815.1775051 31.00075366 Physical median r² 0.6745091 0.690348220.429974564 Anhedonia p 92 123 n/a HAMD, total median MSE 44.874316921.4111889 51.17416788 score median r² 0.62386495 0.80822534 0.600713723p 31 123 n/a HAMD, q1, 7, 8 median MSE 2.04269051 1.25720156 2.447818182sum score median r² 0.59849127 0.76841313 0.474861019 p 38 110 n/a HAMD,q7 median MSE 0.5660152 0.37695234 0.771495455 median r² 0.609613180.73435387 0.407349419 p 28 58 n/a BPRS, negative median MSE 0.229478230.11052677 0.223487784 score median r² 0.3567901 0.68800207 0.426280069p 12 54 n/a BPRS, median MSE 0.47774909 0.37200915 0.716768024depression- median r² 0.6784626 0.76758706 0.520999457 anxiety score p39 58 n/a Hopkins, anxiety median MSE 0.15278469 0.14505891 0.147720373score median r² 0.46629576 0.47103414 0.475010058 p 14 49 n/a Hopkins,median MSE 0.13015768 0.10560835 0.148762648 depression score median r²0.58405287 0.67747487 0.516387069 p 15 102 n/a Bipolar II, median MSE1.11473489 1.02057729 1.722802026 depression score median r² 0.841182560.86421896 0.745336441 p 32 114 n/a Bipolar II, median MSE 0.816083550.79832926 1.565412195 anxiety score median r² 0.7409768 0.734790110.523792469 p 30 58 n/a SANS, anhedonia median MSE 0.80659301 0.88761041.02542 factor score median r² 0.4847042 0.43714204 0.251376657 p 24 13n/a SAMS avolition median MSE 0.35767455 0.29545236 0.76713875 factorscore median r² 0.64133778 0.69348871 0.252067852 p 30 54 n/a SANS,blunt median MSE 0.29046712 0.35398284 0.555033335 affect global medianr² 0.65317772 0.57650195 0.346361453 score p 15 29 n/a SANS, alogiamedian MSE 0.27355305 0.22486147 0.370562213 global score median r²0.43984006 0.45944781 0.260900092 p 16 22 n/a SANS, attention median MSE0.61391724 0.52919515 0.840366667 factor score median r² 0.426341810.56616671 0.26694625 p 15 90 n/a SANS, anhedonia median MSE 0.826967280.91638191 1.31 global score median r² 0.52922904 0.52124193 0.349258197p 16 57 n/a SANS, avolition median MSE 1.0735851 0.96201314 1.69874global score median r² 0.48944093 0.4703767 0.186773404 p 15 92 n/aSANS, blunt median MSE 0.47919468 0.64615998 0.941919557 affect globalmedian r² 0.56575973 0.5970739 0.403780513 score p 16 89 n/a SANS,alogia median MSE 0.42319702 0.51674167 0.709333333 global score medianr² 0.41947137 0.43807514 0.181628238 p 15 16 n/a SANS, attention medianMSE 0.5766073 0.87984786 1.165269856 global score median r² 0.539355250.37445084 0.141182351 p 23 56 n/a

TABLE 12 Models with Scales + fMRI as Input Feature Set Predicted ScoresMetric Lasso ElasticNet RandomForest Chapman Social median MSE7.54857525 8.62749906 15.861 Anhedonia median r² 0.85696606 0.829233370.624779485 p 47 31 n/a Chapman median MSE 11.4387261 9.64819292 30.3415Physical median r² 0.80523296 0.84146325 0.46116541 Anhedonia p 46 211n/a HAMD, total median MSE 30.0928229 18.4018727 56.24705882 scoremedian r² 0.68185562 0.75611578 0.409766837 p 64 500 n/a HAMD, q1, 7, 8median MSE 0.78599809 1.39375053 2.453211765 sum score median r²0.8139221 0.66728025 0.351087925 p 26 38 n/a HAMD, q7 median MSE0.50886936 0.2839172 0.698394118 median r² 0.56050644 0.748352880.35008427 p 14 71 n/a BPRS, negative median MSE 0.12890998 0.101257890.263854412 score median r² 0.6985185 0.72757156 0.365523303 p 15 77 n/aBPRS, median MSE 0.38343051 0.3666505 0.614460907 depression- median r²0.60430968 0.6324356 0.400634204 anxiety score p 10 126 n/a Hopkins,anxiety median MSE 0.15000759 0.09454587 0.182484719 score median r²0.59683759 0.70395432 0.494827971 p 27 127 n/a Hopkins, median MSE0.07745056 0.109673 0.166952453 depression score median r² 0.709112720.61049809 0.487824855 p 16 26 n/a Bipolar II, median MSE 0.86126830.81444012 1.874116667 depression score median r² 0.86949418 0.874489850.716193323 p 50 236 n/a Bipolar II, median MSE 0.92825662 0.58850911.4777 anxiety score median r² 0.72875618 0.82518059 0.545020104 p 31 32n/a SANS, anhedonia median MSE 0.75319007 0.40312956 0.602954545 factorscore median r² 0.45645379 0.69809318 0.4687 p 20 113 n/a SANS,avolition median MSE 0.44983495 0.23568128 0.523295022 factor scoremedian r² 0.54295816 0.75660524 0.482050744 p 4 104 n/a SANS, bluntmedian MSE 0.59539547 0.15419775 0.651515161 affect factor median r²0.11155579 0.74503811 0.238753545 score p 18 66 n/a SANS, alogia medianMSE 0.20516943 0.18387234 0.251717177 factor score median r² 0.274670660.25771316 0.141923298 p 15 44 n/a SANS, attention median MSE 0.620594880.67939691 0.932954545 factor score median r² 0.5322245 0.550548580.260303398 p 8 21 n/a SANS, anhedonia median MSE 1.03514893 0.513313190.843345455 global score median r² 0.37662089 0.71666415 0.526349083 p38 94 n/a SANS, avolition median MSE 0.69546127 0.31666292 0.8424 globalscore median r² 0.5712837 0.7831869 0.423196371 p 32 76 n/a SANS, bluntmedian MSE 0.53970926 0.24419898 0.918772727 affect global median r²0.63412804 0.8621164 0.286820238 score p 7 104 n/a SANS, alogia medianMSE 0.23416101 0.1346341 0.459032293 global score median r² 0.630272040.76082807 0.337482692 p 16 79 n/a SANS, attention median MSE 0.670386490.3496769 0.864181818 global score median r² 0.60670155 0.723061650.405159722 p 34 49 n/a

TABLE 13 Models with Scales + sMRI + fMRI as Input Feature Set PredictedScores Metric Lasso ElasticNet RandomForest Chapman Social median MSE7.02713487 9.88649254 19.15130417 Anhedonia median r² 0.821794750.80395702 0.574399043 p 30 106 n/a Chapman Physical median MSE23.103581 15.813689 24.33652917 Anhedonia median r² 0.620157430.65207517 0.427901305 p 48 32 n/a HAMD, total score median MSE53.9003365 20.609113 56.87493846 median r² 0.40119528 0.746136820.382350302 p 45 287 n/a HAMD, q1, 7, 8 median MSE 0.83612067 0.663954371.736653846 sum score median r² 0.74556212 0.84561512 0.4934095 p 22 15n/a HAMD, q7 median MSE 0.37916308 0.27904854 0.592908763 median r²0.68283541 0.74596354 0.456458962 p 24 41 n/a BPRS, negative median MSE0.12270201 0.21086621 0.238864423 score median r² 0.67420458 0.568481260.393594454 p 20 59 n/a BPRS, depression- median MSE 0.434850820.23737832 0.5453289 anxiety score median r² 0.62338118 0.736086770.465149531 p 16 101 n/a Hopkins, anxiety median MSE 0.085987480.07735448 0.155089002 score median r² 0.68432645 0.75087675 0.472547865p 27 47 n/a Hopkins, depression median MSE 0.13237647 0.075684230.128395595 score median r² 0.51367615 0.72075418 0.551525829 p 8 28 n/aBipolar II, median MSE 0.72420064 0.61353445 1.800416667 depressionscore median r² 0.87359605 0.90430728 0.707705862 p 31 93 n/a BipolarII, anxiety median MSE 0.52050357 0.53484936 1.415204167 score median r²0.83781236 0.84698368 0.541076495 p 72 31 n/a SANS, anhedonia median MSE0.3853509 0.34019896 0.741640625 factor score median r² 0.668682350.76398652 0.479339276 p 25 96 n/a SANS, avolition median MSE 0.113397530.24172352 0.337739063 factor score median r² 0.87833197 0.750478950.54596125 p 15 37 n/a SANS, blunt affect median MSE 0.280021220.10988582 0.373347216 factor score median r² 0.62139163 0.865217020.504200316 p 12 48 n/a SANS, alogia factor median MSE 0.183714450.28849662 0.245543402 score median r² 0.56331434 0.39736881 0.370516386p 4 11 n/a SANS, attention median MSE 0.33208967 0.38759467 0.5703125factor score median r² 0.76203213 0.69803375 0.388411538 p 14 75 n/aSANS, anhedonia median MSE 0.31323163 0.48323333 0.9457375 global scoremedian r² 0.77081433 0.69441199 0.416995804 p 10 100 n/a SANS, avolitionmedian MSE 0.40052226 0.35670872 0.61165 global score median r²0.68969915 0.65259748 0.437284034 p 20 8 n/a SANS, blunt affect medianMSE 0.77088686 0.24344448 0.6033125 global score median r² 0.47160520.81951831 0.669752381 p 12 60 n/a SANS, alogia median MSE 0.291112490.30605891 0.434708622 global score median r² 0.3509162 0.542339360.377058065 p 12 13 n/a SANS, attention median MSE 0.62341815 0.593152550.7232875 global score median r² 0.39958268 0.36730395 0.333212632 p 857 n/a

TABLE 13 Models with Scales + sMRI + fMRI as Input Feature Set Scales_Scales_ sMRI_ Scales_ sMRI_ Predicted Scores Metric Scales sMRI fMRIsMRI fMRI fMRI fMRI Chapman Social median MSE 12.510 43.893 13.24610.847 14.682 8.627 886 Anhedonia median r² 0.782 0.065 0.732 0.7960.677 0.829 1.804 p 126 32 345 63 559 31 106 Chapman Physical median MSE19.670 42.835 21.406 15.178 14.419 9.648 15.814 Anhedonia median r²0.642 0.158 0.656 0.690 0.740 0.841 0.652 p 240 61 358 123 211 211 32HAMD, total score median MSE 39.549 126.523 38.973 21.411 27.066 18.40220.609 median r² 0.686 0.131 0.596 0.808 0.611 0.756 0.746 p 30 63 500123 448 500 287 HAMD, q1, 7, 8 sum median MSE 1.665 3.616 0.916 1.2571.305 1.394 0.664 score median r² 0.627 0.412 0.741 0.768 0.780 0.6670.846 p 111 32 191 110 78 38 15 HAMD, q7 median MSE 0.645 1.036 0.3780.377 0.448 0.284 0.279 median r² 0.507 0.251 0.699 0.734 0.629 0.7480.746 p 31 8 54 58 95 71 41 BPRS, negative score median MSE 0.256 0.3230.151 0.111 0.208 0.101 0.211 median r² 0.318 -0.016 0.574 0.688 0.4840.728 0.568 p 16 0 131 54 12 77 59 BPRS, depression-anxiety median MSE0.495 0.958 0.382 0.372 0.453 0.367 0.237 score median r² 0.638 0.2860.543 0.768 0.594 0.632 0.736 p 15 16 36 58 119 126 101 Hopkins, anxietyscore median MSE 0.134 0.260 0.110 0.145 0.098 0.095 0.077 median r²0.525 0.042 0.653 0.471 0.650 0.704 0.751 p 54 6 85 49 29 127 47Hopkins, depression score median MSE 0.148 0.299 0.159 0.106 0.138 0.1100.076 median r² 0.530 0.019 0.450 0.677 0.415 0.610 0.721 p 50 3 29 10216 26 28 Bipolar II, mood score median MSE 1.183 6.408 2.530 1.021 1.8670.814 0.614 median r² 0.836 0.123 0.625 0.864 0.719 0.874 0.904 p 112 22255 114 241 236 93 Bipolar II, anxiety score median MSE 1.252 2.8650.988 0.798 0.703 0.589 0.535 median r² 0.616 0.121 0.644 0.735 0.7890.825 0.847 p 62 16 153 58 161 32 31 SANS, anhedonia factor median MSE0.596 1.376 0.447 0.888 0.357 0.403 0.340 score median r² 0.549 0.0840.726 0.437 0.772 0.698 0.764 p 31 7 66 13 48 113 96 SANS, avolitionfactor median MSE 0.533 0.683 0.413 0.295 0.113 0.236 0.242 score medianr² 0.527 0.250 0.682 0.693 0.843 0.757 0.750 p 95 16 63 54 41 104 37SANS blunt affect factor median MSE 0.294 0.737 0.139 0.354 0.166 0.1540.110 score median r ² 0.632 0.175 0.811 0.577 0.765 0.745 0.865 p 30 829 29 65 66 48 SANS, alogia factor score median MSE 0.280 0.426 0.0920.225 0.116 0.184 0.288 median r² 0.455 0.145 0.783 0.459 0.773 0.2580.397 p 21 4 37 22 77 44 11 SANS, attention factor median MSE 0.5131.107 0.545 0.529 0.436 0.679 0.388 score median r² 0.550 0.079 0.5580.566 0.607 0.551 0.698 p 31 10 16 90 93 21 75 SANS, anhedonia globalmedian MSE 0.772 1.314 0.653 0.916 0.576 0.513 0.483 score median r²0.511 0.262 0.591 0.521 0.639 0.717 0.694 p 97 16 22 57 107 94 100 SANS,avolition global median MSE 1.175 1.820 0.459 0.962 0.211 0.317 0.357score median r² 0.514 0.118 0.736 0.470 0.827 0.783 0.653 p 41 8 126 9267 76 8 SANS, blunt affect global median MSE 0.731 1.282 0.405 0.6460.267 0.244 0.243 score median r² 0.515 0.217 0.677 0.597 0.840 0.8620.820 p 16 30 18 89 41 104 60 SANS, alogia global median MSE 0.381 0.6920.256 0.517 0.258 0.135 0.306 score median r² 0.563 0.126 0.450 0.4380.651 0.761 0.542 p 54 16 21 16 26 79 13 SANS, attention global medianMSE 1.149 1.239 0.845 0.880 0.289 0.350 0.593 score median r² 0.3760.185 0.559 0.374 0.757 0.723 0.367 p 23 8 70 56 13 49 57 Table 14:Comparison of all Elastic Net Models using Truncated Feature SetsReturned by Forward Selection Approach

TABLE 15 Comparison of all Elastic Net Models using Full Feature SetsScales_ Scales_ sMRI_ Scales_ sMRI_ Predicted Scores Metric Scales sMRIfMRI sMRI fMRI fMRI fMRI Chapman Social Anhedonia MSE 23.597 118.98360.536 21.494 39.454 25.938 25.641 r² 0.539 −0.941 −0.255 0.597 −0.4430.565 0.293 Chapman Physical Anhedonia MSE 48.835 69.992 64.141 36.42565.951 25.679 59.355 r² 0.249 −1.046 −0.156 0.052 −0.537 0.435 0.247HAMD, total score MSE 77.891 282.184 164.331 46.766 161.696 69.01186.035 r² 0.474 −0.369 −0.110 0.640 −0.235 0.143 0.210 HAMD, q1, 7, 8sum score MSE 4.178 3.786 4.760 3.286 3.250 4.631 2.246 r² 0.320 0.242−0.448 0.637 −0.140 0.244 0.350 HAMD, q7 MSE 1.198 1.945 1.179 1.0522.082 1.430 1.439 r² −0.053 −0.409 −1.543 0.224 −0.407 −0.023 0.162BPRS, negative score MSE 0.504 0.764 0.678 0.207 0.461 0.345 0.632 r²0.037 −0.361 −0.564 0.024 −0.104 −1.803 0.219 BPRS, depression-anxietyscore MSE 0.992 1.606 1.301 0.610 1.091 0.929 0.850 r² 0.146 0.060−0.283 0.580 −1.005 −0.164 −0.347 Hopkins, anxiety score MSE 0.105 0.3280.343 0.130 0.261 0.253 0.213 r² 0.324 −0.028 −0.110 0.322 0.031 −0.097−0.510 Hopkins, depression score MSE 0.196 0.310 0.276 0.208 0.348 0.2240.103 r² 0.373 0.019 −0.595 0.229 −0.157 0.290 0.238 Bipolar II, moodscore MSE 2.172 11.538 7.683 1.809 6.379 2.426 2.099 r² 0.670 −0.282−0.140 0.676 −0.255 0.579 0.658 Bipolar II, anxiety score MSE 1.8313.432 3.634 1.815 2.762 1.200 1.108 r² 0.183 −0.115 0.003 0.624 −0.0720.473 0.387 SANS, anhedonia factor score MSE 2.195 2.619 1.974 1.7240.975 1.499 1.464 r² −0.328 −1.457 −0.254 −0.092 0.053 −0.039 0.154SANS, avolition factor score MSE 1.446 1.203 1.682 1.023 0.646 0.9350.585 r² 0.007 −0.326 −0.490 −0.097 −0.292 −0.238 0.354 SANS, bluntaffect factor score MSE 0.564 1.736 0.396 0.809 0.472 0.997 0.381 r²−0.666 −0.339 −0.896 0.256 −0.249 −0.204 −2.057 SANS, alogia factorscore MSE 0.552 0.285 0.365 0.483 0.242 1.137 0.505 r² 0.009 −0.088−0.591 −0.005 −1.901 −0.517 −0.014 SANS, attention factor score MSE1.343 1.985 1.573 1.282 2.240 2.140 1.794 r² −0.094 −0.502 −0.244 −0.431−0.327 −0.850 −0.305 SANS, anhedonia global score MSE 2.081 2.232 2.1382.234 2.147 2.496 1.920 r² 0.022 −0.395 −0.244 −0.018 −0.227 −0.6970.122 SANS, avolition global score MSE 2.720 2.947 1.774 2.670 0.9231.217 1.698 r² −0.441 −0.326 0.050 −0.318 0.222 −0.753 −0.132 SANS,blunt affect global score MSE 1.611 2.108 1.737 1.064 0.810 1.251 0.629r² −0.184 −1.010 −0.083 0.288 −0.672 0.243 0.085 SANS, alogia globalscore MSE 0.790 1.879 1.408 1.154 0.746 0.789 0.901 r² −0.926 −0.566−0.469 −0.273 −0.541 −0.325 −0.802 SANS, attention global score MSE3.080 1.995 2.191 1.911 1.207 1.045 2.996 r² −0.721 −0.163 −0.287 −0.250−0.016 −0.129 −1.084

Weaker models were filtered out by first examining which model algorithmgave the best r² metric across the outcome variables for each predictorvariable. Not only did Elastic Net perform the best according to thiscriteria (73% won), but it also returns the most interpretable features(for methodological reasons as discussed herein). Then for each outcomevariable the r² across different predictor variable sets were compared(e.g., Table 14). Overall, both scales+fMRI and scales+sMRI+fMRI inputsets had the majority of, but an equal number of, winning models basedon r² (seven winning models each). All other models performed relativelywell except sMRI-only models. For comparison with the modeling resultsusing the full feature sets (not the truncated sets returned by theforward modeling approach), as shown in Table 15. These were suboptimalto the forward modeling approach. The features returned for one of thewinning sets were further examined. Those models used all three featurestypes as input.

Referring to FIGS. 9A-12H, for the 21 models with Scales+sMRI+fMRI inputfeature set, model performance was evaluated on the held-out test setwith measured versus predicted plots. FIGS. 9A-9F illustrate measuredversus predicted values for best models for depression or depressedmood, according to some implementations of the present disclosure. Themeasured versus predicted outcome scores (right) illustrate how closelythe model predictions are to actual outcome scores for individuals inthe held-out sample for this set of models. Held-out sample sizes differbetween models since some scales were not given to all participants(e.g., the SANS scale was only given to BD and SZ patients). Similar toFIG. 9A-9F, FIGS. 10A-10E illustrate measured versus predicted valuesfor best models for anhedonia; FIG. 11A-11B illustrate measured versuspredicted values for best models for anxiety; and FIGS. 12A-12Hillustrate measured versus predicted values for best models for negativesymptoms.

Referring to FIG. 13, for the 21 models with Scales+sMRI+fMRI inputfeature set, model performance was evaluated on the held-out test setwith r² values across models for different outcome variables (see Table14 —last column). FIG. 13 illustrates best median r² for the best modelsfor each outcome variable. Models selected were using Scales+sMRI+fMRIas the input feature set and Elastic Net. Next to each outcome variable,the corresponding number of non-zero features (p) returned by the modelappears.

Next, turning to FIGS. 14A-14B, proportions of features derived fromscale, fMRI, and sMRI feature sets were compared, for the best model foreach outcome variable, both among the whole feature set and the top 25%of features. FIGS. 14A-14B illustrate proportions of feature types inbest models. More specifically, FIG. 14A illustrates proportion of allfeatures returned by the model. The densest hatching plots proportion offeatures from scales; the hatching with medium density plots proportionfrom fMRI connectivity measures; and the least dense hatching plotsproportion from sMRI measures. FIG. 14B illustrates proportion offeature types in the top 25% of features returned by the model. Thus,FIG. 14B demonstrates that for many outcome variables there is adisproportionate number of scale features in the top features thoughthere are more fMRI features overall in the models (see FIG. 14A).

There is a paucity of sMRI features in both the whole feature set andthe top quarter of features. Groupings of the scale-based features werefurther examined. The groups were sorted by proportion of the scalesfrom which they are derived. For each model, grouped by symptom type ofthe outcome variable, the scale features for the best model areproportionately selected from the scales shown in FIGS. 15A-18G. The TCIscale in particular is often represented among the top scales byproportion.

Referring now to FIGS. 15A-15F, proportions of features from each scaleare illustrated, for best model predicting depression or depressed mood.Of the features returned by the best model that were scale items, eachpie chart illustrates the proportion of those items that were from thecorresponding scales for the model for each outcome variable. Forexample, for the SANS, global blunt affect model, 20% of the scale itemswere from the TCI scale, 20% from the chapper scale, 20% from thechapsoc scale, and 40% from the Eysenck scale. Similar to FIGS. 15A-15F,FIGS. 16A-16E illustrate proportions of features from each scale forbest model predicting anhedonia; FIGS. 17A-17B illustrate proportions offeatures from each scale for best model predicting anxiety; and FIGS.18A-18G illustrate proportion of features from each scale for best modelpredicting negative symptoms.

Turning generally to FIGS. 19A-22H, the fMRI features can also begrouped by suggested canonical resting-state networks from the Poweratlas and are shown in the connectivity matrices, according to someimplementations of the present disclosure. More specifically, FIGS.19A-19F illustrate binary heat maps for fMRI connectivity features ofbest model predicting depression or depressed mood. For all non-zerofMRI connectivity features returned by the respective model, theregression coefficients for each individual edge between two nodes isplotted in the connectivity matrix for that model. Each row and columnrepresents a single ROI from the Power atlas, ordered consistently inboth directions. Coefficients have been binarized (positive plotted asstars, negative as circles) for easier viewing of sparse matrices. Upperand lower triangles illustrate redundant information, so only uppertriangles are plotted. Lines delineate canonical resting state networksfor easier visualization of network category for each feature. Similarto FIGS. 19A-22H, FIGS. 20A-20E illustrate binary heat maps for fMRIconnectivity features of best model predicting anhedonia; FIGS. 21A-21Billustrate binary heat maps for fMRI connectivity features of best modelpredicting anxiety; and FIGS. 22A-22H illustrate binary heat maps forfMRI connectivity features of best model predicting negative symptoms.

Binarized versions of the regression coefficients (pos->1, neg->−1) areplotted for better visualization of the location of features across thenetworks. Connectivity matrices have the same ROIs and networks listedon both axes, and the lower left triangle is redundant to the upperright triangle. Thus data is only plotted in the upper triangle. Thepredictive fMRI connectivity features appear mostly distributed acrossmultiple networks rather than selective to a few particular networks.The exception for a few outcome variables (‘hamd,’‘sans_global_bluntaffect,’ ‘chapsoc,’ ‘sans_global_anhedonia,’ and‘sans_factor_avolition’) is in connectivity between the DMN and othernetworks. In particular, the predictive edges between the DMN and othernetworks mostly originate from the anterior cingulate and/or the medialorbitofrontal lobe.

Since the number of samples used in each model varied based on thenumber of subjects who completed a particular scale and the number ofdropped subjects due to poor quality (did not pass QC), some models werebuilt with as few as n=38 subjects (the SANS models with all three inputtypes). To examine if the results could be due to overfitting, r² wasfurther compared for just p=32 and 64 features to look at cases whereoverfitting is less likely (p<n), such as shown in FIGS. 23A-23B. Toconstrain the number of features used by the model to less than thesample size, median r² values for models were plotted, where p<n for allmodels (left) or p<n for about half of the models (right) since n=38 or39 for the SANS models when using scales+sMRI+fMRI inputs (see Table 6).These plots illustrate that most r² values are >0.5 suggesting thatoverfitting is not the major contributor to the high predictability ofthese models. Thus, predictive value was still largely high with r²values mostly >0.5 for these models, suggesting that performance in thebest models is likely not solely due to overfitting.

In addition, according to some implementations of the presentdisclosure, the models with the least complexity are scales-only models.Results for this set of models is shown in FIGS. 24A-27H. (See Table 14for metrics of scales-only models). More specifically, FIGS. 24A-24Fillustrate proportions of features from each scale for the scales-onlymodel predicting depression or depressed mood The model using ElasticNet with the median r² value was chosen for this further examination.

FIGS. 25A-25E illustrate proportions of features from each scale forscales-only model predicting anhedonia, according to someimplementations of the present disclosure;

FIGS. 26A-26B illustrate proportions of features from each scale forscales-only model predicting anxiety, according to some implementationsof the present disclosure;

FIGS. 27A-27H illustrate proportions of features from each scale forscales-only model predicting negative symptoms, according to someimplementations of the present disclosure;

Additional Information

According to some implementations of the present disclosure, biomarkerswere explored for severity of various psychiatric symptoms includingdepression, anxiety, anhedonia, and other negative symptoms in atransdiagnostic sample. An importance-ranked, forward selection modelingapproach was applied to search for the most predictive input featuresfrom a set of clinical scale measures, structural MRI measures, andfunctional MRI measures and to evaluate several different modelingalgorithms. Notably, this data-driven methods of selecting featuresubsets additionally improved model predictability over models using thewhole feature set. Overall, Elastic Net regression with multi-modalinputs, either all three input feature types or a combination of scalescores and fMRI connectivity measures, preformed the best. These modelsexplained the most variance in the outcome measures which were a rangeof total scores of a scale, scores from a subset of questions from ascale, or individual question scores from a scale for the symptomsevaluated.

Elastic Net regression returns regression coefficients which can beexamined for further interpretation of biomarkers. The magnitude of thenon-zero coefficients included in the best models were evaluated toparse out the features. Overall, the individual, edge-level fMRIconnectivity measures between specific network nodes dominated in nearlyall of the regression models for different symptom measures, butresponses to individual questions in self-report clinical scales werealso highly predictive. sMRI measures were not well-represented amongthe essential features in our models. Scale features also tended to bemore highly represented in the top 25% of features than in the whole setof features returned by the models, though this was not the case forevery outcome variable. Thus, their relative importance may be higherthan fMRI features, though clearly the multi-modal models performedbetter than scales-only models suggesting an additive effect to themulti-modal models. Therefore, a comparison of different feature typesin transdiagnostic was disclosed, along with identifying acommunity-based symptom severity biomarker.

The categorical origins of the clinical scale features and fMRI featuresfor these models were further investigated. Within each symptom grouping(depression/mood, anxiety, anhedonia, negative symptoms.) of the outcomevariables, there was also some similarity in the scales from which theywere drawn as many included items from the TCI scale, Hopkins SymptomChecklist, and several Chapman scales. The TCI scale in particular wasconsistently among the top three scales in predicting all but oneoutcome variable for depression, anxiety, and anhedonia. This scalemeasures temperaments such as harm avoidance and novelty seeking whichare associated with depression and anxiety.

The number of scales from which predictor variables were drawn alsoseemed to correspond to how broad the outcome variable was. For example,‘hamd,’ ‘chapphy,’ and ‘chapsoc’ outcome variables were all total scoresfrom their respective scales, and their models drew features from morescales than models predicting sub-scores or individual item scores (suchas ‘sans_factor_bluntaffect’ or ‘hamd7’). This may suggest thatpredicting more narrowly-defined outcome scores utilizes less scales andmay require administration of few scales to patients for optimalmodeling at least within multi-modal datasets.

Assessing the categorical groupings of importance-ranked fMRIconnectivity features for each model was done according to canonicalresting-state networks of the Power atlas. This analysis demonstratedthat these highly-predictive features are distributed across manynetworks in many of our models. This may have the implication that it isuseful for examining connections between individual nodes when creatingmodels instead of relying solely upon summary metrics of networks suchas graph theory metrics.

In several models (‘hamd,’ ‘sans_global_bluntaffect,’ ‘chapsoc,’‘sans_global_anhedonia,’ and ‘sans_factor_avolition’), some pattern ofconnectivity between the default mode network (DMN) and other networksdid emerge as an important set of predictor variables. In particular,the predictive edges between the DMN and other networks mostly originatefrom the anterior cingulate and/or the medial orbitofrontal lobe,regions that have previously been implicated in anhedonia. In addition,DMN connectivity is associated with depressive and negative symptoms.DMN variability increases in SZ patients with depression and correlateswith this symptom score. Additionally, hypoconnectivity in the DMN isfound in patients with SZ and psychotic bipolar disorder whereconnectivity was negatively correlated with negative. DMN within- andbetween-network connectivity is also altered in mood and psychoticdisorders and tied to reduced reward responsiveness (a proxy foranhedonia).

The present disclosure includes a data-driven method to search forimproved biomarkers and to show the representation of the mostpredictive features at a high level. Other high-dimensional datasets,such as genetic expression data, may also benefit from animportance-weighted forward modeling approach to find which genes aremost predictive of which symptoms. Clustering methods can provide oneway to reduce the dimensionality by grouping genes by similarity.Feature selection may also benefit from grouping or selecting variablesby predictability rather than similarity. While cross-validation onheld-out test sets is meant to minimize overfitting, some modelsreturned p>n and thus may still be susceptible to overfitting. Butmodels which perform feature selection such as Elastic Net are designedto work on problems where p>>n and may help to reduce overfitting.

Additional Embodiments

Further aspects of the present disclosure include the following method:Clinical scale data, resting-state functional-MRI data, andstructural-MRI scans are received for multiple patients withschizophrenia, bipolar disorder, attention deficit and hyperactivitydisorder (“ADHD”), or healthy controls. The received data arepreprocessed. At least one logistic regression model of features in thereceived data is generated. A set of predictive phenotypic features inthe received data is generated based on weights generated from the atleast one logistic regression model.

Additional aspects of the present disclosure include the followingcomputing system: A computer system includes at least one database, amemory, and a processor. The at least one database stores clinical scaledata, resting-state functional-MRI data, and structural-MRI scans formultiple patients with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, ADHD, or healthycontrols. The memory stores computer instructions. The processor isconfigured to execute the computer instructions to preprocess the datastored in the at least one database. At least one logistic regressionmodel of features in the received data is generated. A set of predictivephenotypic features in the received data is generated based on weightsgenerated from the at least one logistic regression model.

Still further aspects of the present disclosure include a system forevaluating a patient for mental health issues. The system includes adisplay, a user interface, a memory, and a control system. The memorycontains machine readable medium. The machine readable medium includesmachine executable code storing instructions for performing a method.The control system is coupled to the memory, and includes one or moreprocessors. The control system is configured to execute the machineexecutable code to cause the control system to perform the method: Onthe display, a series of questions is displayed. The series of questionsis from mental health questionnaires. The series of questions includestext and answers for each question. From the user interface, a selectionof answers is received from a patient of each of the series ofquestions. A set of MRI data output is received after scanning thepatient's brain using magnetic resonance imaging. Using a machinelearning model, the selection of answers and the set of MRI data areprocessed to output an indication of the mental health of the patient.In some aspects, the mental health includes neuropsychiatric disorders,schizophrenia, and bi-polar disorder.

Still additional aspects of the present disclosure include a machinelearning based approach to build robust data-driven transdiagnosticclassifiers to distinguish SCZ, BD, and ADHD patients from healthycontrols (HCs) based on the openly available CNP dataset is described.Multiple data modalities are utilized, including clinicalbehavioral/symptom phenotypes and neuroimaging data (sMRI and fMRI) toobtain the optimal transdiagnostic models. Specifically,feature-importance guided sequential model selection approach is adoptedin which classifiers were first built based on full sets of features toextract the feature importance and then from which a series of truncatedmodels were built and evaluated to obtain the model producing the bestperformance. All transdiagnostic classifiers achieved very highperformance in classifying various patient cohorts from healthycontrols. More importantly, this feature and model selection approachnot only allowed for the finding of the most robust transdiagnosticclassifier but also identify the corresponding subset of most predictivefeatures shared commonly across SCZ, BD, and ADHD patients. These sharedfeatures are reported and the identified latent abnormalpsychopathological structure across these psychiatric disorders isdiscussed.

Although the present disclosure provides for models trained on the CNPdatabase, the present disclosure contemplates that any databasecomprising clinical scales data and MRI data can be used to producemodels, as would be readily contemplated by one skilled in the art.

The disclosed models selected as informative the features which trend inthe same direction for all participants. The present disclosurecontemplates that brain activity can be examined which diverges betweenpatient groups; such an approach can yield other features.

Although the present disclosure discusses input primarily in terms offMRI data and sMRI data, other embodiments can provide for receivingrs-fMRI.

Altogether, the present disclosure provides a data-driven way to improvebiomarker development for predicting symptom severitytransdiagnostically and can be used in a personalized medicine approachin diagnosing and treating behavioral disorders.

Machine Learning Implementation

Various aspects of the present disclosure can be performed by amachine-learning algorithm, as readily understood by a person skilled inthe art. In some examples, step 2940 of FIG. 29 and methodology 3000 ofFIG. 30 can be performed by a supervised or unsupervised algorithm. Forinstance, the system may utilize more basic machine learning toolsincluding 1) decision trees (“DT”), (2) Bayesian networks (“BN”), (3)artificial neural network (“ANN”), or (4) support vector machines(“SVM”). In other examples, deep learning algorithms or other moresophisticated machine learning algorithms, e.g., convolutional neuralnetworks (“CNN”), or capsule networks (“CapsNet”) may be used.

DT are classification graphs that match input data to questions asked ateach consecutive step in a decision tree. The DT program moves down the“branches” of the tree based on the answers to the questions (e.g.,First branch: Did the clinical scales data include certain input? yes orno. Branch two: Did the MRI data include certain features? yes or no,etc.).

Bayesian networks (“BN”) are based on likelihood something is true basedon given independent variables and are modeled based on probabilisticrelationships. BN are based purely on probabilistic relationships thatdetermine the likelihood of one variable based on another or others. Forexample, BN can model the relationships between MRI data, clinicalscales data, and any other information as contemplated by the presentdisclosure. Particularly, if a question type and particular features ofthe patient's MRI data are known, a BN can be used to compute a symptomseverity indicator. Thus, using an efficient BN algorithm, an inferencecan be made based on the input data.

Artificial neural networks (“ANN”) are computational models inspired byan animal's central nervous system. They map inputs to outputs through anetwork of nodes. However, unlike BN, in ANN the nodes do notnecessarily represent any actual variable. Accordingly, ANN may have ahidden layer of nodes that are not represented by a known variable to anobserver. ANNs are capable of pattern recognition. Their computingmethods make it easier to understand a complex and unclear process thatmight go on during determining a symptom severity indicator based on avariety of input data.

Support vector machines (“SVM”) came about from a framework utilizing ofmachine learning statistics and vector spaces (linear algebra conceptthat signifies the number of dimensions in linear space) equipped withsome kind of limit-related structure. In some cases, they may determinea new coordinate system that easily separates inputs into twoclassifications. For example, a SVM could identify a line that separatestwo sets of points originating from different classifications of events.

Deep neural networks (DNN) have developed recently and are capable ofmodeling very complex relationships that have a lot of variation.Various architectures of DNN have been proposed to tackle the problemsassociated with algorithms such as ANN by many researchers during thelast few decades. These types of DNN are CNN (Convolutional NeuralNetwork), RBM (Restricted Boltzmann Machine), LSTM (Long Short TermMemory) etc. They are all based on the theory of ANN. They demonstrate abetter performance by overcoming the back-propagation error diminishingproblem associated with ANN.

Machine learning models require training data to identify the featuresof interest that they are designed to detect. For instance, variousmethods may be utilized to form the machine learning models, includingapplying randomly assigned initial weights for the network and applyinggradient descent using back propagation for deep learning algorithms. Inother examples, a neural network with one or two hidden layers can beused without training using this technique.

In some examples, the machine learning model can be trained usinglabeled data, or data that represents certain user input. In otherexamples, the data will only be labeled with the outcome and the variousrelevant data may be input to train the machine learning algorithm.

For instance, to determine whether particular mental health disorderfits the input data, various machine learning models may be utilizedthat input various data disclosed herein. In some examples, the inputdata will be labeled by having an expert in the field label the relevantregulations according to the particular situation. Accordingly, theinput to the machine learning algorithm for training data identifiesvarious data as from a healthy control or from a patient.

Exemplary NMR System

Referring now to FIGS. 31A-32, the methods and embodiments of thepresent disclosure can be performed on an exemplary nuclear magneticresonance (“NMR system”). As a person of ordinary skill in the artunderstands, NMR commonly refers to the hardware used to generatedifferent types of scans, including MRI scans. Referring now to FIGS.31A-32, there is shown the major components of an NMR system which canbe used to carry out the methods of the various embodiments. FIG. 32shows the components of an exemplary transceiver for the NMR system ofFIGS. 31A-31B. It should be noted that the methods of the variousembodiments can also be carried out using other NMR systems.

The operation of the system of FIGS. 31A-32 is controlled from anoperator console 100 which includes a console processor 101 that scans akeyboard 102 and receives inputs from a human operator through a controlpanel 103 and a plasma display/touch screen 104. The console processor101 communicates through a communications link 116 with an applicationsinterface module 117 in a separate computer system 107. Through thekeyboard 102 and controls 103, an operator controls the production anddisplay of images by an image processor 106 in the computer system 107,which connects directly to a video display 118 on the console 100through a video cable 105.

The computer system 107 is formed about a backplane bus which conformswith the VME standards, and it includes a number of modules whichcommunicate with each other through this backplane. In addition to theapplication interface 117 and the image processor 106, these include aCPU module 108 that controls the VME backplane, and an SCSI interfacemodule 109 that connects the computer system 107 through a bus 110 to aset of peripheral devices, including disk storage 111 and tape drive112. The computer system 107 also includes a memory module 113, known inthe art as a frame buffer for storing image data arrays, and a serialinterface module 114 that links the computer system 107 through a highspeed serial link 115 to a system interface module 120 located in aseparate system control cabinet 122.

The system control 122 includes a series of modules which are connectedtogether by a common backplane 118. The backplane 118 is comprised of anumber of bus structures, including a bus structure which is controlledby a CPU module 119. The serial interface module 120 connects thisbackplane 118 to the high speed serial link 115, and pulse generatormodule 121 connects the backplane 118 to the operator console 100through a serial link 125. It is through this link 125 that the systemcontrol 122 receives commands from the operator which indicate the scansequence that is to be performed.

The pulse generator module 121 operates the system components to carryout the desired scan sequence. It produces data which indicates thetiming, strength and shape of the RF pulses which are to be produced,and the timing of and length of the data acquisition window. The pulsegenerator module 121 also connects through serial link 126 to a set ofgradient amplifiers 127, and it conveys data thereto which indicates thetiming and shape of the gradient pulses that are to be produced duringthe scan. The pulse generator module 121 also receives patient datathrough a serial link 128 from a physiological acquisition controller129. The physiological acquisition control 129 can receive a signal froma number of different sensors connected to the patient. For example, itmay receive ECG signals from electrodes or respiratory signals from abellows and produce pulses for the pulse generator module 121 thatsynchronizes the scan with the patient's cardiac cycle or respiratorycycle. And finally, the pulse generator module 121 connects through aserial link 132 to scan room interface circuit 133 which receivessignals at inputs 135 from various sensors associated with the positionand condition of the patient and the magnet system. It is also throughthe scan room interface circuit 133 that a patient positioning system134 receives commands which move the patient cradle and transport thepatient to the desired position for the scan.

The gradient waveforms produced by the pulse generator module 121 areapplied to a gradient amplifier system 127 comprised of Gx, Gy, and Gzamplifiers 136, 137 and 138, respectively. Each amplifier 136, 137, and138 is utilized to excite a corresponding gradient coil in an assemblygenerally designated 139. The gradient coil assembly 139 forms part of amagnet assembly 155 which includes a polarizing magnet 140 that producesa 1.5 Tesla polarizing field that extends horizontally through a bore.The gradient coils 139 encircle the bore, and when energized, theygenerate magnetic fields in the same direction as the main polarizingmagnetic field, but with gradients Gx, Gy and Gz directed in theorthogonal x-, y- and z-axis directions of a Cartesian coordinatesystem. That is, if the magnetic field generated by the main magnet 140is directed in the z direction and is termed BO, and the total magneticfield in the z direction is referred to as Bz, then Gx∂Bz/∂x, Gy=∂Bz/∂yand Gz=∂Bz/∂z, and the magnetic field at any point (x,y,z) in the boreof the magnet assembly 141 is given by B(x,y,z)=Bo+Gxx+GyyGzz. Thegradient magnetic fields are utilized to encode spatial information intothe NMR signals emanating from the patient being scanned. Because thegradient fields are switched at a very high speed when an EPI sequenceis used to practice the preferred embodiment of the invention, localgradient coils are employed in place of the whole-body gradient coils139. These local gradient coils are designed for the head and are inclose proximity thereto. This enables the inductance of the localgradient coils to be reduced and the gradient switching rates increasedas required for the EPI pulse sequence. For a description of these localgradient coils which is incorporated herein by reference, see U.S. Pat.No. 5,372,137 issued on Dec. 13, 1994, and entitled “NMR Local Coil forBrain Imaging”.

Located within the bore 142 is a circular cylindrical whole-body RF coil152. This coil 152 produces a circularly polarized RF field in responseto RF pulses provided by a transceiver module 150 in the system controlcabinet 122. These pulses are amplified by an RF amplifier 151 andcoupled to the RF coil 152 by a transmit/receive switch 154 which formsan integral part of the RF coil assembly. Waveforms and control signalsare provided by the pulse generator module 121 and utilized by thetransceiver module 150 for RF carrier modulation and mode control. Theresulting NMR signals radiated by the excited nuclei in the patient maybe sensed by the same RF coil 152 and coupled through thetransmit/receive switch 154 to a preamplifier 153. The amplified NMRsignals are demodulated, filtered, and digitized in the receiver sectionof the transceiver 150.

The transmit/receive switch 154 is controlled by a signal from the pulsegenerator module 121 to electrically connect the RF amplifier 151 to thecoil 152 during the transmit mode and to connect the preamplifier 153during the receive mode. The transmit/receive switch 154 also enables aseparate local RF head coil to be used in the transmit and receive modeto improve the signal-to-noise ratio of the received NMR signals. Withcurrently available NMR systems such a local RF coil is preferred inorder to detect small variations in NMR signal. Reference is made to theabove cited U.S. Pat. No. 5,372,137 for a description of the preferredlocal RF coil.

In addition to supporting the polarizing magnet 140 and the gradientcoils 139 and RF coil 152, the main magnet assembly 141 also supports aset of shim coils 156 associated with the main magnet 140 and used tocorrect inhomogeneities in the polarizing magnet field. The main powersupply 157 is utilized to bring the polarizing field produced by thesuperconductive main magnet 140 to the proper operating strength and isthen removed.

The NMR signals picked up by the RF coil are digitized by thetransceiver module 150 and transferred to a memory module 160 which isalso part of the system control 122. When the scan is completed and anentire array of data has been acquired in the memory modules 160, anarray processor 161 operates to Fourier transform the data into an arrayof image data. This image data is conveyed through the serial link 115to the computer system 107 where it is stored in the disk memory 111. Inresponse to commands received from the operator console 100, this imagedata may be archived on the tape drive 112, or it may be furtherprocessed by the image processor 106 and conveyed to the operatorconsole 100 and presented on the video display 118 as will be describedin more detail hereinafter.

Referring particularly to FIG. 32, the transceiver 150 includescomponents which produce the RF excitation field B1 through poweramplifier 151 at a coil 152A and components which receive the resultingNMR signal induced in a coil 152B. As indicated above, the coils 152Aand B may be a single whole-body coil, but the best results are achievedwith a single local RF coil specially designed for the head. The base orcarrier frequency of the RF excitation field is produced under controlof a frequency synthesizer 200 which receives a set of digital signals(CF) through the backplane 118 from the CPU module 119 and pulsegenerator module 121. These digital signals indicate the frequency andphase of the RF carrier signal, which is produced at an output 201. Thecommanded RF carrier is applied to a modulator and up converter 202where its amplitude is modulated in response to a signal R(t) alsoreceived through the backplane 118 from the pulse generator module 121.The signal R(t) defines the envelope, and therefore the bandwidth, ofthe RF excitation pulse to be produced. It is produced in the module 121by sequentially reading out a series of stored digital values thatrepresent the; desired envelope. These stored digital values may, inturn, be changed from the operator console 100 to enable any desired RFpulse envelope to be produced. The modulator and up converter 202produces an RF pulse at the desired Larmor frequency at an output 205.The magnitude of the RF excitation pulse output through line 205 isattenuated by an exciter attenuator circuit 206 which receives a digitalcommand, TA, from the backplane 118. The attenuated RF excitation pulsesare applied to the power amplifier 151 that drives the RF coil 152A. Fora more detailed description of this portion of the transceiver 122,reference is made to U.S. Pat. No. 4,952,877, which is incorporatedherein by reference.

Referring still to FIGS. 31A-32, the NMR signal produced by the subjectis picked up by the receiver coil 152B and applied through thepreamplifier 153 to the input of a receiver attenuator 207. The receiverattenuator 207 further amplifies the NMR signal, and this is attenuatedby an amount determined by a digital attenuation signal (RA) receivedfrom the backplane 118. The receive attenuator 207 is also turned on andoff by a signal from the pulse generator module 121 such that it is notoverloaded during RF excitation. The received NMR signal is at or aroundthe Larmor frequency, which in the preferred embodiment is around 63.86MHz for 1.5 Tesla. This high-frequency signal is down-converted in atwo-step process by a down converter 208 which first mixes the NMRsignal with the carrier signal on line 201 and then mixes the resultingdifference signal with the 2.5 MHz reference signal on line 204. Theresulting down-converted NMR signal on line 212 has a maximum bandwidthof 125 kHz, and it is centered at a frequency of 187.5 kHz. Thedown-converted NMR signal is applied to the input of ananalog-to-digital (A/D) converter 209, which samples and digitizes theanalog signal at a rate of 250 kHz. The output of the A/D converter 209is applied to a digital detector, and signal processor 210 which produce16-bit in-phase (I) values and 16-bit quadrature (Q) valuescorresponding to the received digital signal. The resulting stream ofdigitized I and Q values of the received NMR signal is output throughbackplane 118 to the memory module 160 where they are employed toreconstruct an image.

To preserve the phase information contained in the received NMR signal,both the modulator and up converter 202 in the exciter section and thedown converter 208 in the receiver section are operated with commonsignals. More particularly, the carrier signal at the output 201 of thefrequency synthesizer 200 and the 2.5 MHz reference signal at the output204 of the reference frequency generator 203 are employed in bothfrequency conversion processes. Phase consistency is thus maintained,and phase changes in the detected NMR signal accurately indicate phasechanges produced by the excited spins. The 2.5 MHz reference signal aswell as 5, 10 and 60 MHz reference signals are produced by the referencefrequency generator 203 from a common 20 MHz master clock signal. Thelatter three reference signals are employed by the frequency synthesizer200 to produce the carrier signal on output 201. For a more detaileddescription of the receiver, reference is made to U.S. Pat. No.4,992,736, which is incorporated herein by reference.

Computer & Hardware Implementation of Disclosure

It should initially be understood that the disclosure herein may beimplemented with any type of hardware and/or software, and may be apre-programmed general purpose computing device. For example, the systemmay be implemented using a server, a personal computer, a portablecomputer, a thin client, or any suitable device or devices. Thedisclosure and/or components thereof may be a single device at a singlelocation, or multiple devices at a single, or multiple, locations thatare connected together using any appropriate communication protocolsover any communication medium such as electric cable, fiber optic cable,or in a wireless manner.

It should also be noted that the disclosure is illustrated and discussedherein as having a plurality of modules which perform particularfunctions. It should be understood that these modules are merelyschematically illustrated based on their function for clarity purposesonly, and do not necessary represent specific hardware or software. Inthis regard, these modules may be hardware and/or software implementedto substantially perform the particular functions discussed. Moreover,the modules may be combined together within the disclosure, or dividedinto additional modules based on the particular function desired. Thus,the disclosure should not be construed to limit the present invention,but merely be understood to illustrate one example implementationthereof.

The computing system can include clients and servers. A client andserver are generally remote from each other and typically interactthrough a communication network. The relationship of client and serverarises by virtue of computer programs running on the respectivecomputers and having a client-server relationship to each other. In someimplementations, a server transmits data (e.g., an HTML page) to aclient device (e.g., for purposes of displaying data to and receivinguser input from a user interacting with the client device). Datagenerated at the client device (e.g., a result of the user interaction)can be received from the client device at the server.

Implementations of the subject matter described in this specificationcan be implemented in a computing system that includes a back-endcomponent (e.g., as a data server) or a middleware component (e.g., anapplication server) or a front-end component (e.g., a client computerhaving a graphical user interface or a Web browser through which a usercan interact with an implementation of the subject matter described inthis specification) or any combination of one or more such back-end,middleware, or front-end components. The components of the system can beinterconnected by any form or medium of digital data communication(e.g., a communication network). Examples of communication networksinclude a local area network (“LAN”) and a wide area network (“WAN”), aninter-network (e.g., the Internet), and peer-to-peer networks (e.g., adhoc peer-to-peer networks).

Implementations of the subject matter and the operations described inthis specification can be implemented in digital electronic circuitry,or in computer software, firmware, or hardware, including the structuresdisclosed in this specification and their structural equivalents, or incombinations of one or more of them. Implementations of the subjectmatter described in this specification can be implemented as one or morecomputer programs (e.g., one or more modules of computer programinstructions) encoded on computer storage medium for execution by, or tocontrol the operation of, data processing apparatus. Alternatively or inaddition, the program instructions can be encoded on anartificially-generated propagated signal (e.g., a machine-generatedelectrical, optical, or electromagnetic signal) that is generated toencode information for transmission to suitable receiver apparatus forexecution by a data processing apparatus. A computer storage medium canbe, or be included in, a computer-readable storage device, acomputer-readable storage substrate, a random or serial access memoryarray or device, or a combination of one or more of them. Moreover,while a computer storage medium is not a propagated signal, a computerstorage medium can be a source or destination of computer programinstructions encoded in an artificially-generated propagated signal. Thecomputer storage medium can also be, or be included in, one or moreseparate physical components or media (e.g., multiple CDs, disks, orother storage devices).

The operations described in this specification can be implemented asoperations performed by a “data processing apparatus” on data stored onone or more computer-readable storage devices or received from othersources.

The term “data processing apparatus” encompasses all kinds of apparatus,devices, and machines for processing data, including by way of example aprogrammable processor, a computer, a system on a chip, or multipleones, or combinations, of the foregoing The apparatus can includespecial purpose logic circuitry (e.g., an FPGA (field-programmable gatearray) or an ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit)). Theapparatus can also include, in addition to hardware, code that createsan execution environment for the computer program in question (e.g.,code that constitutes processor firmware, a protocol stack, a databasemanagement system, an operating system, a cross-platform runtimeenvironment, a virtual machine, or a combination of one or more ofthem). The apparatus and execution environment can realize variousdifferent computing model infrastructures, such as web services,distributed computing, and grid computing infrastructures.

A computer program (also known as a program, software, softwareapplication, script, or code) can be written in any form of programminglanguage, including compiled or interpreted languages, declarative orprocedural languages, and it can be deployed in any form, including as astand-alone program or as a module, component, subroutine, object, orother unit suitable for use in a computing environment. A computerprogram may, but need not, correspond to a file in a file system. Aprogram can be stored in a portion of a file that holds other programsor data (e.g., one or more scripts stored in a markup languagedocument), in a single file dedicated to the program in question, or inmultiple coordinated files (e.g., files that store one or more modules,sub-programs, or portions of code). A computer program can be deployedto be executed on one computer or on multiple computers that are locatedat one site or distributed across multiple sites and interconnected by acommunication network.

The processes and logic flows described in this specification can beperformed by one or more programmable processors executing one or morecomputer programs to perform actions by operating on input data andgenerating output. The processes and logic flows can also be performedby, and apparatus can also be implemented as, special purpose logiccircuitry (e.g., an FPGA (field-programmable gate array) or an ASIC(application-specific integrated circuit)).

Processors suitable for the execution of a computer program include, byway of example, both general and special purpose microprocessors, andany one or more processors of any kind of digital computer. Generally, aprocessor will receive instructions and data from a read-only memory ora random access memory or both. The essential elements of a computer area processor for performing actions in accordance with instructions andone or more memory devices for storing instructions and data. Generally,a computer will also include, or be operatively coupled to receive datafrom or transfer data to, or both, one or more mass storage devices forstoring data (e.g., magnetic, magneto-optical disks, or optical disks).However, a computer need not have such devices. Moreover, a computer canbe embedded in another device (e.g., a mobile telephone, a personaldigital assistant (PDA), a mobile audio or video player, a game console,a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver, or a portable storage device(e.g., a universal serial bus (USB) flash drive), to name just a few).Devices suitable for storing computer program instructions and datainclude all forms of non-volatile memory, media and memory devices,including by way of example semiconductor memory devices (e.g., EPROM,EEPROM, and flash memory devices; magnetic disks, e.g., internal harddisks or removable disks; magneto-optical disks; and CD-ROM and DVD-ROMdisks). The processor and the memory can be supplemented by, orincorporated in, special purpose logic circuitry.

CONCLUSION

The various methods and techniques described above provide a number ofways to carry out the invention. Of course, it is to be understood thatnot necessarily all objectives or advantages described can be achievedin accordance with any particular embodiment described herein. Thus, forexample, those skilled in the art will recognize that the methods can beperformed in a manner that achieves or optimizes one advantage or groupof advantages as taught herein without necessarily achieving otherobjectives or advantages as taught or suggested herein. A variety ofalternatives are mentioned herein. It is to be understood that someembodiments specifically include one, another, or several features,while others specifically exclude one, another, or several features,while still others mitigate a particular feature by inclusion of one,another, or several advantageous features.

Furthermore, the skilled artisan will recognize the applicability ofvarious features from different embodiments. Similarly, the variouselements, features, and steps discussed above, as well as other knownequivalents for each such element, feature or step, can be employed invarious combinations by one of ordinary skill in this art to performmethods in accordance with the principles described herein. Among thevarious elements, features, and steps, some will be specificallyincluded and others specifically excluded in diverse embodiments.

Although the application has been disclosed in the context of certainembodiments and examples, it will be understood by those skilled in theart that the embodiments of the application extend beyond thespecifically disclosed embodiments to other alternative embodimentsand/or uses and modifications and equivalents thereof.

In some embodiments, the terms “a” and “an” and “the” and similarreferences used in the context of describing a particular embodiment ofthe application (especially in the context of certain of the followingclaims) can be construed to cover both the singular and the plural. Therecitation of ranges of values herein is merely intended to serve as ashorthand method of referring individually to each separate valuefalling within the range. Unless otherwise indicated herein, eachindividual value is incorporated into the specification as if it wereindividually recited herein. All methods described herein can beperformed in any suitable order unless otherwise indicated herein orotherwise clearly contradicted by context. The use of any and allexamples, or exemplary language (for example, “such as”) provided withrespect to certain embodiments herein is intended merely to betterilluminate the application and does not pose a limitation on the scopeof the application otherwise claimed. No language in the specificationshould be construed as indicating any non-claimed element essential tothe practice of the application.

Certain embodiments of this application are described herein. Variationson those embodiments will become apparent to those of ordinary skill inthe art upon reading the foregoing description. It is contemplated thatskilled artisans can employ such variations as appropriate, and theapplication can be practiced otherwise than specifically describedherein. Accordingly, many embodiments of this application include allmodifications and equivalents of the subject matter recited in theclaims appended hereto as permitted by applicable law. Moreover, anycombination of the above-described elements in all possible variationsthereof is encompassed by the application unless otherwise indicatedherein or otherwise clearly contradicted by context.

Particular implementations of the subject matter have been described.Other implementations are within the scope of the following claims. Insome cases, the actions recited in the claims can be performed in adifferent order and still achieve desirable results. In addition, theprocesses depicted in the accompanying figures do not necessarilyrequire the particular order shown, or sequential order, to achievedesirable results.

All patents, patent applications, publications of patent applications,and other material, such as articles, books, specifications,publications, documents, things, and/or the like, referenced herein arehereby incorporated herein by this reference in their entirety for allpurposes, excepting any prosecution file history associated with same,any of same that is inconsistent with or in conflict with the presentdocument, or any of same that may have a limiting affect as to thebroadest scope of the claims now or later associated with the presentdocument. By way of example, should there be any inconsistency orconflict between the description, definition, and/or the use of a termassociated with any of the incorporated material and that associatedwith the present document, the description, definition, and/or the useof the term in the present document shall prevail.

In closing, it is to be understood that the embodiments of theapplication disclosed herein are illustrative of the principles of theembodiments of the application. Other modifications that can be employedcan be within the scope of the application. Thus, by way of example, butnot of limitation, alternative configurations of the embodiments of theapplication can be utilized in accordance with the teachings herein.Accordingly, embodiments of the present application are not limited tothat precisely as shown and described.

While various examples of the present disclosure have been describedabove, it should be understood that they have been presented by way ofexample only, and not limitation. Numerous changes to the disclosedexamples can be made in accordance with the disclosure herein withoutdeparting from the spirit or scope of the disclosure. Thus, the breadthand scope of the present disclosure should not be limited by any of theabove described examples. Rather, the scope of the disclosure should bedefined in accordance with the following claims and their equivalents.

Although the disclosure has been illustrated and described with respectto one or more implementations, equivalent alterations and modificationswill occur to others skilled in the art upon the reading andunderstanding of this specification and the annexed drawings. Inaddition, while a particular feature of the disclosure may have beendisclosed with respect to only one of several implementations, suchfeature may be combined with one or more other features of the otherimplementations as may be desired and advantageous for any given orparticular application.

The terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particularexamples only and is not intended to be limiting of the disclosure. Asused herein, the singular forms “a,” “an,” and “the” are intended toinclude the plural forms as well, unless the context clearly indicatesotherwise. Furthermore, to the extent that the terms “including,”“includes,” “having,” “has,” “with,” or variants thereof, are used ineither the detailed description and/or the claims, such terms areintended to be inclusive in a manner similar to the term “comprising.”

Unless otherwise defined, all terms (including technical and scientificterms) used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by oneof ordinary skill in the art to which this disclosure belongs.Furthermore, terms, such as those defined in commonly used dictionaries,should be interpreted as having a meaning that is consistent with theirmeaning in the context of the relevant art, and will not be interpretedin an idealized or overly formal sense unless expressly so definedherein.

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 48. A system for evaluating a patient for mental healthissues, the system comprising: a display device; a user interface; amemory containing machine readable medium comprising machine executablecode having stored thereon instructions for performing a method; and acontrol system coupled to the memory comprising one or more processors,the control system configured to execute the machine executable code tocause the control system to: display, on the display device, a series ofquestions from mental health questionnaires comprising text and answersfor each question; receive, from the user interface, a selection ofanswers from a patient of each of the series of questions; receive,unprocessed MRI data corresponding to a set of MRI images of abiological structure associated with the patient; and process, using amachine learning model, the selection of answers and the unprocessed MRIdata to output a mental health indication of the patient, wherein themachine learning model was generated by:  receiving labeled trainingdata for a plurality of individuals indicating whether each of theplurality of individuals has one or more mental health disorders, thelabeled training data comprising:  MRI data recorded for each of theplurality of individuals; and  a selection of answers to the series ofquestions for each of the plurality of individuals;  determining aplurality of features from the labeled training data;  training aninitial machine learning model in a supervised manner, based on theplurality of features;  extracting importance measures for each of theplurality of features, based on the training of the initial machinelearning model;  generating a plurality of subset machine learningmodels based on the extracted importance measures for the plurality offeatures;  evaluating a classification performance of the generatedplurality of subset machine learning models; and  selecting at least oneof the subset machine learning models as the machine learning model. 49.The system of claim 48, wherein the machine learning model is trained onclinical scales data corresponding to the plurality of individuals. 50.The system of claim 48, wherein the machine learning model is trained onfMRI full connectivity data corresponding to the plurality ofindividuals.
 51. The system of claim 48, wherein the machine learningmodel is trained on sMRI data corresponding to the plurality ofindividuals, the sMRI data comprising cortical volume data, corticalthickness data, and cortical surface area data.
 52. The system of claim48, wherein the machine learning model is trained on input datacorresponding to the plurality of individuals, wherein, for eachindividual, the input data comprises clinical scales data and fMRI data.53. The system of claim 48, wherein the machine learning model istrained on input data corresponding to the plurality of individuals,wherein, for each individual, the input data comprises clinical scalesdata and sMRI data.
 54. The system of claim 48, wherein the machinelearning model is trained on input data corresponding to the pluralityof individuals, wherein, for each individual, the input data comprisesfMRI data and sMRI data.
 55. The system of claim 48, wherein the machinelearning model is trained on input data corresponding to the pluralityof individuals, wherein, for each individual, the input data comprisesfMRI data, clinical scales data, and sMRI data.
 56. A system forevaluating mental health of patients, the system comprising: a memorycontaining machine readable medium comprising machine executable codehaving stored thereon instructions for performing a method; and acontrol system coupled to the memory comprising one or more processors,the control system configured to execute the machine executable code tocause the control system to: receive a selection of answers associatedwith a patient, the selection of answers corresponding to each questionin a series of questions from mental health questionnaires; receive,unprocessed MRI data corresponding to a set of MRI images of abiological structure associated with the patient; process theunprocessed MM data to output a set of MRI features; and process, usinga machine learning model, the selection of answers, and the set of MMfeatures, to output a mental health indication of the patient, whereinthe machine learning model was generated by:  receiving labeled trainingdata for a plurality of individuals indicating whether each of theplurality of individuals has one or more mental health disorders, thelabeled training data comprising:  MRI data recorded for each of theplurality of individuals; and  a selection of answers to the series ofquestions for each of the plurality of individuals;  determining aplurality of features from the labeled training data;  training aninitial machine learning model in a supervised manner, based on theplurality of features;  extracting importance measures for each of theplurality of features, based on the training of the initial machinelearning model;  generating a plurality of subset machine learningmodels based on the extracted importance measures for the plurality offeatures;  evaluating a classification performance of the generatedplurality of subset machine learning models; and  selecting at least oneof the subset machine learning models as the machine learning model.